LLM Spirals of Delusion: A Benchmarking Audit Study of AI Chatbot Interfaces

ArXi:2604.06188v1 Announce Type: cross People increasingly hold sustained, open-ended conversations with large language models (LLMs). Public reports and early studies suggest that, in such settings, models can reinforce delusional or conspiratorial ideation or even amplify harmful beliefs and engagement patterns. We present an audit and benchmarking study that measures how different LLMs encourage, resist, or escalate disordered and conspiratorial thinking.