David Spies (@dspyz)

I was referring to the NYT article: 'He asked the chatbot how to do that and told it the drugs he was taking and his routines. The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”' As far as the two characters I mentioned literally reinforcing a delusion, I'm not finding any examples. I just meant that they fit a particular character archetype that shows up in literature: I think extreme sycophancy is usually reserved for "False friend"s with underhanded intentions. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FalseFriend