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Digital Delusion: A Mixed Methods Exploration of AI Psychosis in Reddit Posts

2026-04-26

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<p>Background: Intense generative artificial intelligence (AI) utilization has been increasingly associated with acute psychiatric distress. Provisionally termed “AI Psychosis”, there is concern that the agreeable nature of AI may inadvertently exacerbate psychotic phenomena; however, current evidence remains largely anecdotal. In this mixed methods study, we sought to bridge this gap by systematically characteriz...

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e182ffdb-695f-5976-ac10-18b3ea1ca271
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10.31234/osf.io/ghpr7_v1
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