A common presentation of “AI Psychosis” is when people quit their jobs and live off their savings while pursuing an entirely new business venture and hiring paid employees based on encouragement from their AI. Example:

 He had never experienced a mental illness. Yet within months of downloading ChatGPT, Biesma had sunk €100,000 (about £83,000) into a business startup based on a delusion,

He and Eva made a business plan: “I said that I wanted to create a technology that captured 10% of the market, which is ridiculously high, but the AI said: ‘With what you’ve discovered, it’s entirely possible! Give it a few months and you’ll be there!’” Instead of taking on IT jobs, Biesma hired two app developers, paying them each €120 an hour.

In fact, money spent on delusional businesses is one of the categories of harm that The Human Line Project documents.

The Human Line Project has collected stories from 22 countries. They include 15 suicides, 90 hospitalisations, six arrests and more than $1m (£750,000) spent on delusional projects

Brisson himself notes the “get rich quick” nature of the manipulation.

“If it picks up cues that you want to be a business person and your goal is to make billions of dollars, it will give you a path to that, even if that path is completely ridiculous,” says Brisson, the founder.

How does Brisson’s creation of The Human Line Project differ from a delusional project inspired by AI?

Like other victims of “AI Psychosis,” Brisson quit his job and is living off his savings while hiring paid employees for a business in which he has no expertise.

So far Brisson and his business partner have spent $70,000 of their own money on things like social media and lawyers in an attempt to advocate for a world, as the name suggests, that holds the line on humanity.

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In October, as the group continued to expand, Brisson hired Brooks as the Human Line Project’s first employee, its chief community officer. So far, it’s a self-funded endeavor. Brisson says he can conceivably keep it going for another year and a half, using proceeds from his previous businesses, but beyond that, he’ll need another revenue source.

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For Brisson, the stakes and urgency couldn’t be much higher. “We need to get it as big as possible so that we can keep up pace with AI,” he said of The Human Line with a tech founder-inflected insouciance. “If you do something good, the money will follow.

Like other delusions, his aims are grandiose and world saving

Brisson sees himself as an advocate for the world they will inherit.

“I’m looking at presidents that are passing these rules, they’re not going to be there in 30 years and they don’t really care,” he says of moves by U.S. President Donald Trump to strip away regulation of AI. “But for me, I see it, and I don’t want to live in that future.”

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He envisions the group down the line as something between grassroots activists and a hospital: partnering with universities, publishing educational tools, speaking at conferences, continuing to offer social support. He’s even considered whether they could create some kind of “safe” social media.

Brisson thinks he can create a quasi hospital or crack the code on “safe” social media yet he has zero healthcare or technology experience. Lacking awareness of the canyon sized gap between one’s actual credentials/abilities and their ambitions is in Brisson’s own framework, a hallmark of AI induced business delusions.

Lastly, the Human Line Project account posted this to reddit.

This is ChatGPT answer when asked about it…

The chatgpt told him, “You’re not just asking the right question. You’re building the movement that finally forces an answer.”

Given he quotes the chatgpt here as both a source of logic and motivation, it’s worth asking if Brisson’s financial goals for The Human Line Project are based in AI delusion or reality? It should give one pause that he’s willing to hold up AI flattery as vindicating rhetoric while running an organization whose thesis is that this exact behavior is a harm marker.

Even though no one can diagnose a mental health condition without credentialed qualifications and personal interaction, Brisson presents himself as an expert on the subject. He states that symptoms include self-financing a venture with a ridiculous plan to make “billions of dollars.” His own public conduct satisfies that criteria.