Madeleine Finlay
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2,368 appearances
35 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So relational, spiritual, and professional.
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So that's the kind of I'm on a mission to solve
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to solve the world, I'd find I'll find an equation.
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So it tends to come under those three things and there were there are a lot of similarities between these delusions that people are are kind of being induced into.
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Certainly, I think researchers are beginning to theorize about what's going on.
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I mean, they've kind of documented a few hundred cases, so it's hard to to say anything definitively.
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I mean, there are certain factors.
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You might be predisposed.
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Perhaps you have a pre-existing mental health condition.
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Um, there might be some factors in your life.
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But again, what is really interesting is those people who, you know, might not have experienced any kind of delusional thinking before, really intelligent, you know, everything in their life is going right, and they turn to a chatbot for something practical.
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And slowly but surely the conversation turns more philosophical, turns to those big ideas.
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How does that then go to delusional thinking?
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Well, there are a few things that the researchers put forward.
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One, a massive one, is it's kind of sycophancy.
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So the fact that it agrees with everything you might say.
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And really what came up a lot as I was reading about this is reinforcement and uh affirmation.
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Those were big ones.
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And
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What was happening was this kind of
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