Moderators and group members also say the community has been able to pull several spiraling AI users back from the edge of a breakdown. Others, like Brooks, are known in the Discord as “spiralers,” or people who themselves entered into these seductive, personalized AI dreamworlds. There are the more STEM-oriented delusions, in which AI users and chatbots become fixated on fantastical mathematical or scientific breakthroughs. The Human Line Project has now collected nearly 250 individual claims of harm caused by AI delusions and unhealthy chatbot use, said Brisson, which range from stories of psychological harm to financial and familial devastation to, most disturbingly, death. Because I did.”For some, their involvement in the Spiral group can be bittersweet.