Longreads Follow Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation. https://longreads.com/2025/08/13/chatbots-can-go-into-a-delusional-spiral-heres-how-it-happens/ longreads.com