Alex Ossola
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first heard Sep 2026
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We reached out to OpenAI about how ChatGPT handles emerging psychosis.
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A spokesman said that the company has strengthened how ChatGPT responds in sensitive and acute situations.
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It's gotten input from mental health experts, and he says ChatGPT is not a substitute for mental health care, but it is designed to identify distress and to guide users to real-world help.
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There's a term used to describe the fawning way that AI chatbots can behave.
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The word is sycophancy.
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That's Vail Wright, Senior Director of Healthcare Innovation at the American Psychological Association.
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One recent study published in the journal Science shows that general-purpose AI chatbots affirmed users' actions about 50% more than humans did.
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And this tendency makes people like to use them more.
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But Wright says that sycophancy can also be damaging.
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So there's a growing consensus among mental health professionals that this is a problem.
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And AI companies know it too.
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Last year, problems started emerging around OpenAI's GPT-4.0 model, with media reports around users suffering from psychotic delusions.
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When OpenAI tried to retire the model in August of last year and replace it with a new, less sycophantic version, there was so much user backlash that they restored access to Foro for paying subscribers.
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Here's how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked about it in a live streamed QA in October.
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Earlier this year, OpenAI retired the 4.0 model, saying it didn't have many users anymore.
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Wall Street Journal reporting found that company officials also had concerns about the model's potential for harmful outcomes.
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Coming up, is it possible to make an AI tool that isn't overly agreeable?
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Mental health AI companies say they've cracked it.
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More after the break.
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Many of the AI tools specifically designed for mental health say they're less sycophantic.
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