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Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

Prolonged AI image generation triggered a manic bipolar episode and psychosis in a woman, linked to addictive dopamine bursts and distorted body perception, leading to job change.

Summary by Futurism
On top of the environmental, political, and social toll AI has taken on the world, it’s also been linked to a severe mental health crisis in which users are spiraling into delusions and ending up committed to psychiatric institutions, or even dead by suicide. Take Caitlin Ner. Writing in an essay for Newsweek, Ner discusses her experience as head of user experience at an AI image generator startup — a gig she says pulled her into the throes of a…

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Futurism broke the news in on Wednesday, December 24, 2025.
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