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Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

Capítulo 247: Can Chatbots Trigger AI Psychosis?

Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

My Cultura, iHeartPodcasts and Locatora Studios

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.8797 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, Diosa and Mala discuss a viral series on TikTok: a woman who falls in love with her psychiatrist and how an AI tool affirms her beliefs. Together, they unpack how ChatGPT, the most popular AI chatbot, and how it's being used as a search engine AND therapy substitute. New research shows continuous and uninterrupted use of AI chatbots can lead to a mental health crisis or AI psychosis. 

Related Episode: Crash Our Or Crisis? 

Sources: 

Woman Who Fell in Love with Her Psychiatrist Speaks Out

Chatbots Can Trigger a Mental Health Crisis. What to Know About ‘AI Psychosis’

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"

Illinois Bans AI Therapy

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.2

So personally, as someone who is actually in love with a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist

0:09.7

is actually in love with me, I find this next story particularly intriguing.

0:15.5

Let's get into it.

0:16.9

Let's get into it.

0:20.0

Oh, la loca mores. I'm Diosa.

0:23.1

And I'm Mala.

0:25.1

Earlier in this season of Locatora radio, we discussed the crashout or the crisis.

0:31.5

And we're building off of this idea when social media users post tons and tons of video online, which seemed to be depicting

0:39.9

a crash out. And we ask ourselves, is this actually a mental health crisis in real time?

0:45.8

And most recently, a TikTok user, Kendra Hilty, posted an over 25-part series to her TikTok,

0:56.7

stating that she fell in love with her psychiatrist and he kept her for four years until she had the strength to walk away.

1:01.8

Now, some TikTok users are asking the question, is this the first instance of AI psychosis

1:07.9

that we're seeing unfold in real time online, and we're going to talk about it

1:12.2

on today's episode.

1:13.4

And I think the reason that we're talking about AI psychosis and how it relates to this story

1:19.8

that this TikTok user is that she not only was seeing a psychiatrist who she claims, she or says

1:27.2

that she was in love with but she also was using

1:30.3

a chat gpt therapist named henry and henry her chat gpt therapist was affirming and mirroring

1:39.8

everything that she was saying about her experience with her psychiatrist.

1:49.3

And so when you have someone affirming this to you in real time and not someone,

1:56.0

but an AI, a chat bot, it can lead to this AI psychosis. And that's one of the reasons that we're talking about for us, this new term and this new effect of being

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