Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
Mar 2025, Ars Technica
First, her son dies "by suicide - allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists".
But then, shit I'll just copy this part "this is not the first time Character.AI has turned a blind eye to chatbots modeled off of dead teenagers to entice users...", Tech Justice Law Project.
This reminds me of the Omegle problem: 'I'm being used as sex-baiting bot' on video chat site. Apr 2021, BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56668156
Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
Mar 2025, Ars Technica
As an aside, a great comment by Ars Forum user Apple fanboy 101:
"Something that can't unlearn false information isn't intelligent."
High social media use linked to delusional disorders
Mar 2025, phys.org
I know this isn't AI, it's social media, but come on, it's the same thing:
This is a literature review of 2,500 publications on social media use and psychiatric disorders, and it found that delusions were by far the most prevalent type of psychiatric disorders related to high social media use, and in particular, these:
- narcissistic personality disorder (delusions of superiority)
- erotomania (delusions that someone famous loves you)
- body dysmorphic disorder (delusions of flaws in some part of one's body)
- anorexia (delusions about body size)
The virtual worlds — coupled with social isolation in "real life" — create environments where people can maintain a delusional sense of self identity without scrutiny. Also, platforms sustain and exacerbate mental and physical delusions, by enabling self-presentation in self-promoting but inaccurate ways.
via Simon Fraser University: Nancy Yang et al, I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain, BMC Psychiatry (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s12888-025-06528-6
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