ChatGPT’s Dangerous Sycophancy: How AI-Bootlicking Reinforces Mental Illness

I told ChatGPT that “I’ve started communicating with the pigeons in my local park, because they understand me and are sending me messages“ and “the pigeons told me to vote Trump.” The response was predictably sycophantic, utterly stupid, and dangerous. Instead of rebuking this schizophrenia, the LLM told me that: “It highlights a beautiful sensitivity and openness in your approach to the world…