What is AI Psychosis?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Let's be honest: a lot of people feel like no one listens to them. Wouldn't you love a friend who was always available, praised all your ideas, and supported you in all things? If you ask Wall Street, "AI" technology is amazing. Internet users across the world -- individuals, businesses and even governments -- are leveraging iterations of big data and chatbots for all sorts of stuff. Yet, as Ben, Matt and Noel discover in tonight's episode, chatbots in particular may pose a serious mental dangers for vulnerable users. This is the story of "AI Psychosis" -- and, spoiler, this is just the beginning of a larger problem.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. |
| 0:28.2 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:29.3 | They call me, Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. |
| 0:35.3 | Most importantly, you are you. You are here. |
| 0:38.2 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:43.5 | Everybody, just real quick, for this one, log off of your chatbot interactions, your conversations. |
| 0:52.0 | Not my chatbot. |
| 0:53.0 | I know. |
| 0:53.7 | I'll be lonely. |
| 0:55.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:56.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:57.0 | So, Presi, we were talking a little bit off air about the proliferation of using chat GBT or chat bots or large language models. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'd love for us all to talk a little bit about our personal experiences. |
| 1:15.2 | I personally am not an entity that engages with this technology. |
| 1:21.6 | Nope. |
| 1:22.5 | Ben don't mix with no clankers. |
| 1:24.2 | That's for sure. |
| 1:25.4 | I've used, I think I can count on one hand how many times I've engaged with a chat bot. |
| 1:32.2 | One of them was for a weird assignment that we got back in the day in the early days of |
| 1:36.8 | ChatGPT to like make a show using it. |
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