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Aug 13, 2025 1 hr 24 min

A.I. Psychosis + Auto Focus (2002)

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⁠Listen to and watch the video version of this episode and every episode ad-free and early on Patreon for $5 a month⁠ After a week of following Kendra, a woman on TikTok who claims to be in love with her psychiatrist, reading the New York Times piece about a man who wound up institutionalized after ONE MONTH of using a chatbot, and ChatGPT's 5o update, Molly can't get A.I. Psychosis. Rob just watched 2002's Auto Focus, a dramatized movie about Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane and his sick little adventures with a camera dealer that resulted in his death. Please check out BringJohnnyHome.com to help reunite a father with his son who was kidnapped by a non-custodial parent and brought out of the country. LINKS Get Molly's 12 page summary of Kendra's videos and listen to the bonus episode about it here (or use the free trial of SolidListen+ on Apple Podcasts for the same thing in The Afters feed) ChatBots can go into a delusional spiral. Here's how it happens - NYT piece (no paywall) A Twitter thread that has all of Kendra's videos (we do not endorse the language used to introduce the thread but this is a good resource for those who do not want to give her clicks or do not have TikTok) Henry trying to level with Kendra on TikTok live Kendra asks Claude to play devil's advocate

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