The Tragic Consequences Of AI Chatbots: A Teenager Trapped In A Simulacra Led To His Suicide

This story underscores my warnings about AI causing a break with reality and its consequences. Psychosis is “a severe mental condition in which thought and emotions are so affected that contact is lost with external reality.” (Oxford) The end state is simulacra, plunging the subject into an Alice in Wonderland freefall into oblivion. In the end, most of humanity will fall into this state.
Simulacra is a copy without an original, a reproduction without reference. It is not a simulatio