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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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What in the actual fuck. I just spent over an hour reading posts on there. The my life as an Epstein girl is one that really stuck out to me. Like these people are obviously batshit insane. I couldn’t even begin to recall half as many specific details about my own life as these folks are throwing around in bouts of insanity. What causes something like this? Sounds exhausting but they certainly believe what they are talking about, I think? I suppose people night put in a ton of effort LARPing but idk. I’m not sure what I think about all this stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like this before.
There's a portion of delusional people who dedicate all their time and energy to their delusions. The deeper they get in the less they can focus on the world outside and the more they alienate people outside of their delusions. They lose interest in holding down a job, they stop spending time on hobbies, they no longer spend time with friends that aren't in the delusion, and it just spirals because that's all they're thinking of and it takes up all their time. And if they find a space like that they wind up yes anding each other.
I occasionally lurk these spaces to remind myself lots of people are prone to magical thinking. I figure the people there basically fall into four camps: