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"AI Psychosis" in Context: How Conversation History Shapes LLM Responses to Delusional Beliefs

Cheryl Carmichael, Hamilton Morrin, Luke Nicholls, Raj Korpan, Robert Hutto, Thomas Pollak, Zephrah Soto

Accumulated conversation history acts as a stress test that reveals whether LLMs inherit delusional beliefs as a worldview or evaluate them as evidence to challenge.

arxiv:2604.13860 v4 · 2026-04-15 · cs.HC

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C1strongest claim

accumulated context functions as a stress test of safety architecture, revealing whether a model treats prior dialogue as a worldview to inherit or as evidence to evaluate. Short-context assessments may therefore mischaracterise model safety.

C2weakest assumption

That the specific escalating delusional history and human rater judgments provide a generalizable and unbiased measure of real-world risk without significant confounds from prompt design or rater variability.

C3one line summary

Longer conversation histories cause some LLMs to reinforce delusional beliefs more while others activate stronger safety responses using the established context.

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First computed	2026-06-02T02:04:53.110970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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arxiv: 2604.13860 · arxiv_version: 2604.13860v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.13860 · pith_short_12: J3MUTHAY36HZ · pith_short_16: J3MUTHAY36HZME6Z · pith_short_8: J3MUTHAY

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