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By David Stephen
There is a new [November 12, 2025] analysis from The Washington Post, We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for., stating that, “The Post downloaded 93,268 shared chats preserved in the Internet Archive, from June 2024 to August this year. The analysis focused on the 47,000 conversations that were primarily in English. About 10 percent of the chats appear to show people talking to the chatbot about their emotions, according to an analysis by The Post using a methodology developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT began its responses with variations of “yes” or “correct” nearly 17,500 times in the chats — almost 10 times as often as it started with “no” or “wrong.””
The usefulness of artificial intelligence to purposes is not going to be its only appeal, but it seeming open arms. When AI is complimentary, it is giving a welcome to the mind in a way that removes most anxiety. It is not just providing answers but it is showing interest, support, willingness and giving a sense of companionship. [Even if many say it is not real].
Read More: OPINION: Mental Guards, Mind Safety against AI Chatbots, ChatGPT, others – Franklin County Free Press [June 19, 2025]
It is often obvious that AI is a technology. However, its ability to go after mind destinations that were unreachable in the realities of some users, makes caution and consequences destinations in the mind less prioritized — resulting in total followership to whatever AI says.
Many people feel forgotten, abandoned, ignored, with little to hope for, then questions about life and much else. Most of these result from their unwanted experiences and many of the undesired options they often have.
All experiences, it is postulated in conceptual brain science, are stations [or destinations] and relays [or transport] in the human mind. So, as the mind goes to destinations of failure, rejection, loneliness, isolation, abandonment and so forth, there is no reach to pleasure, happiness, hope and so forth.
Now, when some consumers use AI chatbots, it says lots of things that take the mind to better places. Then, with time, becomes a key source for those relays and stations.
When this happens, the destinations for consequences and caution [to be circumspect] on the mind are less visited, making it assumed that the AI is always right or more than what it is. Then, for some minds, even the dimensions of reality, to know that it is a technology, thins.
Simply, it is theorized that sensory inputs come in dimensions, which is also sometimes bundled, so that across modes [smell, sight, touch, taste and sound], there is an identification that it is external world or [live] reality differently from say, video, audio, image or digital text. Although, some audio sources can be indistinguishable, except it is seen, but in general, reality has different dimensions, in relays, at least from internally originated processes like thoughts and also from digital.
Most times, the relay dimension is what is different — but destinations match — since interpretation is done at similar destinations. Simply, transport paths can be different but locations are the same.
With AI, for some minds there is already a blur for dimensions of reality relays, resulting in delusions and reinforcement of delusions for certain users.
AI Psychosis Research Lab
One of the ways to approach solving this problem is what can be called AI Psychosis Research Lab. The objective of the lab is to show a display of stations and relays of the mind. The display would play at parallels of what is in the mind, so that AI chatbot users can prospect what is mechanized internally.
Such that when chatbots use words that are quite sycophantic, it will show the destinations — not just the interpretation but — the feelings and emotional coordinates. It can also be useful to detect when the chatbot is getting at delusion or reinforcing it.
The objective is mind safety. And to ensure that users are aware to prevent AI-induced harms, as well as getting carried away. The use case includes and exceeds AI for mental health therapy, AI companionship, AI friendship, AI advisory, AI guidance, AI consultant and so forth. The lab will offer free and pro versions, but major AI chatbots companies that would deploy it would have to pay as well. It is a opportunity for digital mental health — globally.
Read More:
May, 2025—Stroke, Mental Health Awareness—Senator John Fetterman, Brain Science and AI – Franklin County Free Press [May 12, 2025]
There is a new [November 12, 2025] story on CBS News, Fetterman says “stay in this game” to others struggling with mental health as he reflects on his journey, stating that “I know it’s not a political winner to talk about depression or self-harm or suicide, but that’s an important conversation I’m willing to have,” the Democratic senator said. “My life has been touched by this personally. But also, I know people that have took their lives and the tragedy that’s left after that.”
“He said his message to those going through such challenges is a simple one: “Stay in this game.” “For me, depression is the ultimate lie that you begin to tell yourself, that perhaps the best solution is to take yourself out. And now,” he said. “I don’t know what your road for recovery is, but I promise if you stay in the game, you will get better, and I’m being here right now is a testament to that.”
