Musician Claire «Grimes» Boucher called AI psychosis «fun,» and then admitted that she suffers from it, too.
Claire “Grimes” Boucher says that you’re really missing out if you’re not experiencing a mental health crisis at the hands of an AI chatbot.
Seriously. We’re not putting words in her mouth.
On Monday, the pop musician and Elon Musk baby-mama had everyone wondering if she was suffering a case of so-called AI psychosis after she seemingly argued in favor of having — you guessed it — AI psychosis.
“The thing about AI psychosis is that it’s more fun than not having AI psychosis,” she wrote in an after-hours tweet, seemingly apropos of nothing.
Her hot take was met with immediate backlash.
“AI psychosis has killed people, Grimes,” responded film concept artist Reid Southen. “It’s not ‘fun.’”
It’s undoubtedly an odd position to take. It’s one thing to be “extremely bullish” on AI, as Grimes frequently describes herself, but it’s another to openly gloat about AI psychosis, a term some experts are using to describe the destructive and delusional mental health episodes caused by extensive interactions with an AI chatbot.
