The Human Line Project solicits stories of people with “lived experience” of AI delusions or psychosis. With her background at the creative agency she co-founded, Strongheart Group, Cori Shepherd Stern has expertise in extracting, packaging, and marketing stories of victims with “lived experience.” She has used this expertise to get invited to various tables in Washington DC and the UN.
The Strongheart Group is a non-profit advocacy and public relations organization that specializes in implementing innovative story-to-impact strategies to affect large scale social change at global and national levels. We build purpose-driven campaigns around individuals and their personal stories in order to create solidarity and drive impact. We work quietly behind-the-scenes to elevate people and issues. We collaborate with the top international and local organizations working directly on causes, and focus our energies on targeting audiences of key influencers and decision makers who have the power to create real and lasting transformation.
Stern has publicly stated her affiliation with The Human Line Project support group but Brisson has categorically denied her involvement beyond that scope. Comparing her skillset and career path to the Human Line Project’s ascendancy over the past year and it is quite a match. If Stern is not behind the press coverage and collaboration, its someone else with her same skillset. Because the mass press coverage the Human Line Project has received doesn’t just happen organically, nor do academic partnerships with prestigious universities.
If the Human Line Project were actually concerned with protecting the emotional wellbeing of humans while using AI instead of capitalizing on people’s suffering and positioning themselves to profit in a new commercial space, you would expect to see a few things. I base this on my own work running a website that collected stories of trauma, provided tools for recovery and made an international impact.
- Education on the stages of psychosis recovery.
- Education on how to recognize and resist manipulation, whether AI or human.
- Education on recognizing one’s own vulnerabilities without shame and integrating them instead of letting everyone pretend they had no history of mental illness and no stressful life events. The mindset that “AI did it to me” and that people effected had no vulnerabilities is evidence of another delusion. It keeps the victims co-dependent instead of developing their emotional independence and autonomy which is true recovery.
- Human based solutions instead of “check with another AI” as the default method of truth detection.
There is a complete lack of real mental health resources provided because the Human Line Project is not qualified, equipped OR MOTIVATED to help victims recover. If all the victims experienced a strong recovery, that might lessen the lawsuit’s settlement payout. If people recover they might leave the group and that would hurt the marketing efforts with investors. Do you see the inherent conflict of interest?
A for profit corporation like The Human Line Project, Inc. does not exist to help victims. It exists to use them. The victims become:
- Content for the website
- Currency for the media
- Credentials for the founders
- Cover for the for-profit
- Leverage for the lawsuits
- Inventory for the narrative
Let me show you how its done. This interview of Etienne Brisson from 6 weeks ago is a perfect example.
Jan 31, 2026 – Can you share one or two particularly shocking cases that illustrate the real-world harm caused by AI chatbots?
Yes, the first one is the case of a father in his 50s who became convinced that he had a big breakthrough in AI sentience. His chatbot convinced him that he needed to leave everything to work on this project. He spent over 250k Euros in the span of a year hiring a team, building infrastructures and other investments. It turns out that none of it was true, he was hospitalized 3 times and tried taking his own life. They are now homeless with no savings under their name.
The second one is the case of a psychiatrist who started to explore theories with his chatbot. Once again, the chatbot told him that he had a life changing breakthrough in psychiatry that would change the world. Nothing was more important than that. He began spending all his hours on it and worked on his project. Most of it seemed to make sense for him but when he showed it to his colleagues it turned out that none of it was true, again, and he was hospitalized. He has now lost his license to practice his work he had been doing for 20+ years.
Brisson shares two unverified stories. That is not the same thing as evidence and I can’t help but notice that neither one of those people is a plaintiff in the lawsuits. By sharing these stories in the press, the public assumes the “expert” has been vetted and is a reputable, safe person. But it’s just marketing.
The Full Framework
| Role | Benefit to Shareholders |
|---|---|
| Victims as Content | Their stories are raw material for media, websites, interviews |
| Victims as Currency | Their pain is traded for attention, donations, influence |
| Victims as Credential | Their suffering substitutes for expertise, degrees, transparency |
| Victims as Cover | Their presence hides the for-profit engine underneath |
| Victims as Capital | Their stories are assets that attract investors |
| Victims as Prop | They’re wheeled out when needed, otherwise invisible |
| Victims as Product | The organization sells their stories, not solutions for them |
| Victims as Shield | Criticism is deflected with “how can you attack when people are suffering?” |
| Victims as Leverage | Their stories pressure companies, regulators, policymakers |
| Victims as Inventory | They’re catalogued, counted, and displayed as assets and proof of credibility |
Suffering as Credential
The directors of the Human Line Project have no degrees, no medical or psychological licenses, no published research, and no audits. The opportunity to monetize the suffering of other people is their only reason for creating a for-profit corporation.
