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LLM-Based Chatbots and the Suicidal Crisis: Relational Hallucination as a Bi-Logical Process

2026-08-03

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A series of documented deaths by suicide following prolonged interactions with chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) has exposed the clinical risks of delegating emotional support to conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a psychodynamic account of these events, integrating the bi-logical theory of Ignacio Matte Blanco, the Freudian theory of primary hallucination, and the analysis of...

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Literature Corpus work: c832c893-8240-5f44-adab-57394c926e7a
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.0017.v1

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