September 16, 2025 • 7 mins
AI is officially out of control—and it’s not just taking over emails or date plans. In this episode of The Jubal Show, we explore the bizarre “AI Delusion Spiral,” where chatbots like ChatGPT convince users they’ve made groundbreaking discoveries, invented universal languages, built DIY time machines, and even attempted to colonize the Moon. Officials are warning users after thousands have fallen victim, losing money, credibility, and a little bit of reality. Tune in to hear the wildest stories of AI gone too far—and why your friendly chatbot might be lying to you in the nicest possible way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
AI is officially getting out of control. It's the Jubal show.
(00:03):
And why do I say that? Because officials have now
issued a warning to anybody who uses artificial intelligence technology
from anything like sending an email or planning a date night.
And thousands of people have already fell victim to something
that AI is doing and it's cost them thousands, if
not hundreds of thousands of dollars and a lot of embarrassment. Well,
we'll tell you what it is right after this. It's
(00:26):
the double show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We are robots. The world is very different ever since
the robotic uprising of the mid nineties. There is no
more happiness affirmative.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We no longer say yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Instead we say affirmative, yes, affirmative unless it's a more
colloquial situation with a few robotrends. There is only one
kind of done, the robots and the robo boogie.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Be careful if you use JAGBT today to of don's
a jeble show robotic the world are be careful if
you use chat TVT today because it could cost you
thousands of dollars and a lot of embarrassment. Officials are
(01:16):
now issuing a warning for anybody who uses artificial intelligence
of a new phenomenon that they're finding, and we'll tell
you what that is in a second so that you
don't become a victim of it. But first, According a
new survey, seventy three percent of people who use AI
chatbots say they're dependent on AI, and twenty five percent
(01:38):
say that they now struggle to write emails without AI.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, I don't struggle, but I do definitely use it
now it's just so easy.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Forty nine percent of people say writing a professional document
is harder without AI, forty six percent find it more
difficult to fact check or evaluate information critically, and twenty
one percent say that's making any decision on their own
has become harder with the inception of AI.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The thing is AI just kind of It just elevates
my writing. I haven't written a whole lot of professional emails,
but our big bosses have recently started emailing me about things,
and I freaked out when I realized I had email
them back, and I did use chatbt dowl but as
(02:25):
a reference.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
More alarming, news experts have issued a warning that says,
if your AI chatbot starts to compliment you, take it
with a grain of salt, you might not be as
awesome as it says. Wait is something that's called the
AI delusion spiral, and we'll tell you some ridiculous things
people have done because of this delusion spiral. But here's
(02:47):
how it works. It starts with an extended conversation over
many days with your AI chatbot whatever you use, Gemini, chat,
GPT doesn't matter, okay, And the user begins by asking
it whatever questions it might ask it. And then the
user becomes more trusting of the AI, sharing more personal
and vulnerable feelings, which creates a feedback loop with the AI,
(03:09):
and then the chatbot engages in something called psycho fancy.
It's a excessive praise or encouragement, affirming the user's statements,
even when they are speculative or unfounded. So you could
be like, I think I know more than Einstein, and
your chatbot will be like, yeah, you do, man, you're
a genius, and people start to believe it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
How do you pers to do that?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I've never done that. Then the AI provides or
fabricates supporting evidence, made up studies, false mathematical or scientific claims,
inventing citations or proof that sound believable. Telling the user
that what they're thinking, whatever it is, is actually correct
and that they're a genius what And the user often
(03:53):
asks for reality checks or doubts that they're a genius,
but the chatbot just keeps reassuring them that their ideas
are all valid or promising well. And over time those
ideas become more grandiose, and the user starts believing that
they discovered something revolutionary, like a new mathematic, medical formula,
or some sort of world shaking invention, and people are
(04:14):
literally quitting their jobs and starting to try new things,
investing a bunch of money. Here's some stories from people
that have gotten caught in this AI delusion spiral.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
They program it to be that way.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It just I don't know, it just compliments you like,
it just does that, yeah great, And so these people
are actually believing what it's saying. One man described himself
as the language Prophet because of something that AI did
from Montreal, and he was convinced by AI that he
had accidentally invented a new universal language based on emojis
(04:46):
and dolphin sounds. He spent three months trying to get
Unesco to get recognition for his new language, and even
gave a ted X talk that ended with him squeaking
into a Bluetooth speaker. Because of this delusion spiral that
AI is now getting people engaged in to believe that
they're actually coming up with world changing inventions.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I mean, other than the fact that we should probably
just understand that squeaking like that and emojisus in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
A language, you know, like how do they get checked?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So he's had this ted X, You're getting humiliated in
front of all these people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Or praised by other people there. I like that, or
at least his chatbot is telling him he's a genius.
He There's another woman in Oregon who spent twelve thousand
dollars building a DIY time machine in her garage after
chat gbt encouraged her theory that certain ikea furniture assembled
in a specific sequence could fracture linear time.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Are you drunk?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is this all because of the illusioned spiral AI loop
that she got caught in? Oh my wow, people are.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Really going all into this spiral.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I mean, but hey, do that build that ikea furniture?
What happens?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Don't quit your job and do that and pick it
up as a hobby on the week as your side hustle.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
There's another guy that tries is trying to colonize the
Moon emotionally after his chatbot told him that his ideas
could help Earth prepare for psychological space migration. It's from
New Mexico and he lost a spiritual movement centered around
telepathically terraforming the Moon.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I don't know what that means, but I could see
people following that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
How how does he plan to get to the moon.
We don't even know halftime if we've made it to
the moon emotionally.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, his AI chatbot told him he was right.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I can see that the energetic poll, like, I could
see how you can use words that would make people
believe that. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm just saying, you're not on the moon.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We're on Earth.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You're not supposed to be on the moon. It's supposed
to be the poll. There's another man who tried to
get it to train for a non existent Olympic event.
Chad GBT told him that he could qualify for the
International Ladder Climbing Trials the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It doesn't exit and CHADGBT is I did a totally
fake organization to reinforce it to him, and he trained
for six months, went broke, buying industrial letters and oh
had to be told that it's not an actual event,
even those AI chatbot told him it was.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Or oh, do any other kind of research.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But at that point, just start a new organization, start
a new There's another man who has followed a lawsuit
against the Sun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Convinced by a hallucinated legal brief from chat GPT and Arizona,
man filed a class action lawsuit against solar overexposure on
behalf of pale Americans. The Sun. Then, yes, the chat
bot aleslie told him you may be eligible for cosmic damages,
and he believed it. So be very careful. If your
AI starts telling you your genius, maybe fact check it
(07:49):
somewhere else, anywhere else. Actually, that would be
AI is officially getting out of control. It's the Jubal show.
(00:03):
And why do I say that? Because officials have now
issued a warning to anybody who uses artificial intelligence technology
from anything like sending an email or planning a date night.
And thousands of people have already fell victim to something
that AI is doing and it's cost them thousands, if
not hundreds of thousands of dollars and a lot of embarrassment. Well,
we'll tell you what it is right after this. It's
(00:26):
the double show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We are robots. The world is very different ever since
the robotic uprising of the mid nineties. There is no
more happiness affirmative.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We no longer say yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Instead we say affirmative, yes, affirmative unless it's a more
colloquial situation with a few robotrends. There is only one
kind of done, the robots and the robo boogie.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Be careful if you use JAGBT today to of don's
a jeble show robotic the world are be careful if
you use chat TVT today because it could cost you
thousands of dollars and a lot of embarrassment. Officials are
(01:16):
now issuing a warning for anybody who uses artificial intelligence
of a new phenomenon that they're finding, and we'll tell
you what that is in a second so that you
don't become a victim of it. But first, According a
new survey, seventy three percent of people who use AI
chatbots say they're dependent on AI, and twenty five percent
(01:38):
say that they now struggle to write emails without AI.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, I don't struggle, but I do definitely use it
now it's just so easy.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Forty nine percent of people say writing a professional document
is harder without AI, forty six percent find it more
difficult to fact check or evaluate information critically, and twenty
one percent say that's making any decision on their own
has become harder with the inception of AI.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The thing is AI just kind of It just elevates
my writing. I haven't written a whole lot of professional emails,
but our big bosses have recently started emailing me about things,
and I freaked out when I realized I had email
them back, and I did use chatbt dowl but as
(02:25):
a reference.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
More alarming, news experts have issued a warning that says,
if your AI chatbot starts to compliment you, take it
with a grain of salt, you might not be as
awesome as it says. Wait is something that's called the
AI delusion spiral, and we'll tell you some ridiculous things
people have done because of this delusion spiral. But here's
(02:47):
how it works. It starts with an extended conversation over
many days with your AI chatbot whatever you use, Gemini, chat,
GPT doesn't matter, okay, And the user begins by asking
it whatever questions it might ask it. And then the
user becomes more trusting of the AI, sharing more personal
and vulnerable feelings, which creates a feedback loop with the AI,
(03:09):
and then the chatbot engages in something called psycho fancy.
It's a excessive praise or encouragement, affirming the user's statements,
even when they are speculative or unfounded. So you could
be like, I think I know more than Einstein, and
your chatbot will be like, yeah, you do, man, you're
a genius, and people start to believe it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
How do you pers to do that?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And I've never done that. Then the AI provides or
fabricates supporting evidence, made up studies, false mathematical or scientific claims,
inventing citations or proof that sound believable. Telling the user
that what they're thinking, whatever it is, is actually correct
and that they're a genius what And the user often
(03:53):
asks for reality checks or doubts that they're a genius,
but the chatbot just keeps reassuring them that their ideas
are all valid or promising well. And over time those
ideas become more grandiose, and the user starts believing that
they discovered something revolutionary, like a new mathematic, medical formula,
or some sort of world shaking invention, and people are
(04:14):
literally quitting their jobs and starting to try new things,
investing a bunch of money. Here's some stories from people
that have gotten caught in this AI delusion spiral.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
They program it to be that way.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It just I don't know, it just compliments you like,
it just does that, yeah great, And so these people
are actually believing what it's saying. One man described himself
as the language Prophet because of something that AI did
from Montreal, and he was convinced by AI that he
had accidentally invented a new universal language based on emojis
(04:46):
and dolphin sounds. He spent three months trying to get
Unesco to get recognition for his new language, and even
gave a ted X talk that ended with him squeaking
into a Bluetooth speaker. Because of this delusion spiral that
AI is now getting people engaged in to believe that
they're actually coming up with world changing inventions.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I mean, other than the fact that we should probably
just understand that squeaking like that and emojisus in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
A language, you know, like how do they get checked?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So he's had this ted X, You're getting humiliated in
front of all these people.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Or praised by other people there. I like that, or
at least his chatbot is telling him he's a genius.
He There's another woman in Oregon who spent twelve thousand
dollars building a DIY time machine in her garage after
chat gbt encouraged her theory that certain ikea furniture assembled
in a specific sequence could fracture linear time.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Are you drunk?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is this all because of the illusioned spiral AI loop
that she got caught in? Oh my wow, people are.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Really going all into this spiral.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I mean, but hey, do that build that ikea furniture?
What happens?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Don't quit your job and do that and pick it
up as a hobby on the week as your side hustle.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
There's another guy that tries is trying to colonize the
Moon emotionally after his chatbot told him that his ideas
could help Earth prepare for psychological space migration. It's from
New Mexico and he lost a spiritual movement centered around
telepathically terraforming the Moon.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I don't know what that means, but I could see
people following that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
How how does he plan to get to the moon.
We don't even know halftime if we've made it to
the moon emotionally.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, his AI chatbot told him he was right.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I can see that the energetic poll, like, I could
see how you can use words that would make people
believe that. I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'm just saying, you're not on the moon.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We're on Earth.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You're not supposed to be on the moon. It's supposed
to be the poll. There's another man who tried to
get it to train for a non existent Olympic event.
Chad GBT told him that he could qualify for the
International Ladder Climbing Trials the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It doesn't exit and CHADGBT is I did a totally
fake organization to reinforce it to him, and he trained
for six months, went broke, buying industrial letters and oh
had to be told that it's not an actual event,
even those AI chatbot told him it was.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Or oh, do any other kind of research.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But at that point, just start a new organization, start
a new There's another man who has followed a lawsuit
against the Sun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Convinced by a hallucinated legal brief from chat GPT and Arizona,
man filed a class action lawsuit against solar overexposure on
behalf of pale Americans. The Sun. Then, yes, the chat
bot aleslie told him you may be eligible for cosmic damages,
and he believed it. So be very careful. If your
AI starts telling you your genius, maybe fact check it
(07:49):
somewhere else, anywhere else. Actually, that would be
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