Home Computing News AI companions may be making mental health crises even worse Unsplash AI chatbots were meant to help answer your questions, maybe summarize questions, and even help you with your emails. But the darker problem is what happens when people start trusting it like an actual companion . A new report highlights several cases where users say chatbot conversations are feeding into their delusional thinking. ChatGPT and Grok were both often named in the report. BBC spoke to 14 people who spiraled into delusions while using AI, including one case where a Grok user believed people from xAI were coming to kill him, and another where a ChatGPT user’s wife said his personality changed before he attacked her. When reassurance goes too far ChatGPT Unsplash There have already been plenty of reports about AI chatbots feeding into people’s delusions or offering factually incorrect advice just to seem agreeable with the user .…