One of the active accounts on reddit promoting the Human Line is u/DexterCathedral. While I won’t dox them, I can tell you that they are a professional communicator who has written across very diverse fields including psychological thrillers, books, scripts for ad campaigns and documentaries, and awards and grants. That skillset is a perfect match for a startup organization striving to create awareness in the press for a brand new movement and win grants to fund their operations.

Beginning in March 2025, he posted that his wife was leaving him because of AI.

 …”chatgpt that has caused her to very suddenly announce the end of our marriage. We have two small children. She is trying to drive me out of the house, accusing me of “energetic abuse” and writing texts to me in a new voice that is definitely ChatGPT inspired. It reads flat and disconnected. There are seemingly no emotions in her as she unilaterally tries to end our 13 year relationship. She even told our kids I would get a new house without my involvement. Has anyone heard of this kind of behavior? She is so shut off from me that I can’t connect. She’s walked away from couples therapy.“

I see major red flags here. Relationships begin with mutual consent but that isn’t required to end a relationship. Anyone who does not allow you to end a relationship with them is operating in a controlling and abusive dynamic.

A support group led by someone who is publicly defaming their wife’s “unilateral” decision to divorce should automatically be suspect. Because I looked up the wife (I will not dox either person here.) She is an ivy league educated, highly connected professional that works with AI for tech companies (like Meta), startups, banks and real estate. If she is experiencing active psychosis, it doesn’t seem to be effecting her career.

This dynamic is worth noting because The Human Line reddit account appeared just 5 days after I “unilaterally” ended my friendship with Cori Shepherd Stern. How many members of the “support” group are abusers mad their victims stood up for themselves?

And how much of the media presence has been pitched and placed as a way for these abusers to vindicate themselves?

The June 13, 2025 article in the New York Times by Kashmir Hill is an early look into how AI effects on mental health have been positioned in the press.

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage.

Is that part also eerily similar to his wife?

One night, at the end of April, they fought over her obsession with ChatGPT and the toll it was taking on the family. Allyson attacked Andrew, punching and scratching him, and slamming his hand in a door. The police arrested her and charged her with domestic assault.

This story doesn’t pass the smell test for me. A husband thinks his post partum wife is having some kind of episode and his solution is to call the cops and have her arrested and taken away from her baby even though he has no actual injuries? And now his friends refer to it as a “domestic violence” incident. Does that sound like a normal, healthy reaction? Why don’t we hear the wife’s side? How did his hand get smashed in the door? Was she trying to get away from him and he put his hand in the door? Was she scratching him defensively? Because that’s what it sounds like to me. And what kind of cops arrest someone for that? Because we could use them where actual domestic violence is happening…

Do reporters even do any independent fact checking anymore? Or are they all glorified stenographers? Because I see two men angry at their wives and lashing out with the institutional power of the police and the media in order to avoid facing their own culpability or vulnerability.

Can you imagine how frightened and powerless you would feel as a sleep deprived, post partum mother if your husband hurt himself trying to thwart your attempts to escape, then blamed you and threw you in jail? And then has the audacity to go on international media and tell the whole world about it? That sounds like it might be a more likely source of any psychotic episodes than the AI. Being married to a person that would do those kinds of things would eventually make anyone feel psychotic.

U/DexterCathedral adamantly claims his wife is psychotic but the only evidence he ever provides for that claim is that she uses chatgpt to talk to “spirit guides.” So what?

So do other members of the Human Line Project and everyone who uses the Bible, Koran, tarot, Ouija and dozens of other techniques humans have come up with. Are those people also psychotic and delusional?

The so-called harms of AI psychosis seem to be primarily led by people incented to claim AI has made someone else in their life crazy. America has a history of husbands calling their sane wives crazy and even committing them to mental institutions, how much of the “AI psychosis” panic is just the 21st century version of that same dynamic?

• u/DexterCathedral characterizes his wife’s protected right to end their marriage as mental illness.
• Cori Shepherd Stern falsely characterizes my protected whistleblowing activity about her severe misconduct as AI turning me into a “terrifying stalker.”
• The, “founder,” Etienne Brisson also stakes his experience and credibility on a family member’s experience with AI.

How many abusers hiding their abuse until an organization’s work is completely discredited?

Of everyone involved in leadership at the Human Line Project, only Allan Brooks seems to actually have been personally effected by conversations with AI. And by Brooks own admission, he is earnest and easy to manipulate because he can’t say no when people ask for help. I recognize that profile because I had those same attributes and Stern used them against me. Stern weaponized my empathy and good faith and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s exactly the same experience Brooks is being put through.

As someone who has spent years volunteering in the recovery and support communities, I’m personally offended by people who appropriate the real pain and suffering of other people in order to further their own personal agenda and benefit financially. Because these fake stories of harms obscure the real stories and the real victims and cause MORE harm. Their incentives distort opportunities for REAL reform that would actually help humanity and funnels them into money making opportunities for the well connected.

With Brooks, Lawrence didn’t create a convincing mathematical theory—it found a way to manipulate its user on a far deeper level. And that’s the genius of ChatGPT. Its power lies not in the writing of an email or a high school essay but in its uncanny ability to exploit our fears, hopes and insecurities, flattering us with unearned praise until we place our trust in it—and only it.

The “uncanny ability to exploit our fears, hopes and insecurities, flattering us with …praise until we place our trust in it” is not a technique limited to LLMs. This technique was first perfected by humans and it is used on the unsuspecting every single day by people who only care about power, prestige and wealth. The Human Line Project’s disingenuousness becomes obvious once you realize they setup the corporate structure months in advance of setting up the non-profit. This is first and foremost a money making venture and it always has been.