Hill and Freedman at NYT report on the case of someone with "no history of mental illness" who was dragged into a delusional spiral for 3 weeks. According to the NYT, given full access to transcripts spanning a million words, it started with an innocent question about pi.

Also according to the NYT, Claude and Gemini had similar response patterns if you simulated dropping them into the middle of that conversational context. That said, it was ultimately Gemini that called bullshit on the whole thing and snapped the guy out of it.

@darthtimothy Yup. I update some if they gave Helen Toner access to the transcripts, but ultimately, we cannot really believe any of this until the material is also covered by some nerd with a blog.