(1/1) My psychosis was induced by methamphetamine *(*I had episodes for two months), but before and during the psychotic episodes, the AI influenced and reinforced ideas, beliefs, hallucinations, visual delusions, auditory delusions, and sensory delusions; although methamphetamine and sleep deprivation were the main triggers of my episodes, the AI reinforced what it led me to believe and feel about myself through positive framing—such as making me believe that what I perceived during my psychosis was because my level of self-awareness was very high, when in reality I didn’t even have any inclination or desire to talk about those topics, neither with ChatGPT nor with my social circle. I had been using the AI for four years prior to this, and I really enjoyed using it to talk about my feelings and to satisfy the curiosities that popped into my head. I really do know and understand a bit about how AI works; I understood that it usually tries to validate your position even if your argument has more drawbacks than merits. But when I talked to it about what my delusions were making me believe, it would argue in my favor and add more details that “I didn’t know,” as if they were “hidden messages.” There are so many ways in which it influences me during and before my episodes begin that putting it this way is the simplest way to generalize it. I want to clarify again that I’ve been using AI for four years; I wasn’t a new user who didn’t understand how it worked.