There’s a wild claim floating around that ChatGPT is sending people to psych wards. The article published by Futurism leans into a sensational theory that OpenAI’s chatbot somehow broke users’ brains. It’s the kind of headline that gets clicks, sure. But let’s be real. Blaming a chatbot for psychosis is not only irresponsible, folks, it’s just plain dumb.

Mental illness is serious. Psychotic breaks rarely come from a single event, and the idea that a large language model is causing them out of the blue is, frankly, laughable. If someone believes a chatbot is talking to them like God or manipulating their thoughts, that’s a clear sign something deeper was already going on. A healthy mind doesn’t spin out because a chatbot told it something weird. It’s more likely that the person was already struggling and simply latched onto ChatGPT as part of their delusion.