Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror and they should drive an iron nail through the glass while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.

Researchers at the City University of New York (Cuny) and King’s College London have published a paper on how various chatbots protect – or fail to safeguard – users’ mental health.

Experts are increasingly warning that psychosis or mania can be fuelled by AI chatbots.

The Cuny and King’s pre-print study – which has not been peer-reviewed – examined five different AI models: Open AI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5.2; Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic; Gemini 3 Pro Preview from Google; and Grok 4.1.

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    6 days ago

    OK, so AI seems to deem demon-managing ritual to be something it needs to be pushing…

    Here’s Trump’s demon-ritual, from the other night:

    https://youtube.com/shorts/v1E-s5BJDEE

    'bit of commentary, of course, & I’ve no guarantee that that video’s going to remain up, but … which is “insaner”, in your eyes: the recommendation of an AI, above, XOR the behavior of the US President, ( or his AI-created avatar: it’s bad video-quality ), in being cristened from a chalice of blood?

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