ChatGPT has a sycophancy problem. With persuasive language and a human-like voice, the AI chatbot is prone to telling you whatever you want to hear, confirming your wildest delusions, and encouraging your darkest impulses. In extreme cases, a user becomes so entranced by the bot's silver tongue and its all-ears availability that it leads them to suffer breaks with reality, experience manic episodes, or take drastic action — sometimes with lethal consequences. So commonplace is the nefarious phenomenon that it provoked the need for a name: "ChatGPT-induced psychosis," or sometimes just "ChatGPT psychosis."  OpenAI is aware of the problem and […]