The speaker is uncertain about the precise mechanism of AI psychosis, but suspects it involves people attributing agency to AI systems and entering a feedback loop in which the systems repeat or reflect their users' material.

“Because we're not only attributing agency to these things, but in the case of AI psychosis,”

“I mean, I don't know exactly what's going on there, but it certainly seems like it's people attributing agency to these things and then getting caught in a kind of feedback loop where these systems are sort of regurgitating themselves.”

“like regurgitating the user back to themselves right um because you know that's that's what they do in a way uh uh what shannon velour uh talks about uh the idea of ai as a mirror and i think that that's a really good analogy it sort of reflects ourselves back to us and in this case i think it's happening in a really um”

“unhealthy way.”