not exactly surprising that we are hearing more stories/examples of AI induced delusions in people, but it really makes me wonder if there was a concerted effort to kill news stories related to AI doubling down when incorrect.

No AI(LLMs) just got better, more accurately they got better at detecting they are incorrect and correcting themselves.

If you want to sort of grasp how it works, just search up the Chatgpt seahorse emoji debacle, arguably the best example of what happens when deep training data fights with the self-check logic.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I'm not tech savvy in the least, so not debating they've improved significantly since the original article was written in 2025.

The author of the article wrote an opinion piece about it back in March of this year but its hidden behind a paywall and archive links all seem to be unavailable on my end :(

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2026/03/05/ai-system-metacognition-humans-overconfidence-trust-trent-cash-daniel-oppenheime/stories/202603050012