Lucy Osler
@lucyosler.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they
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www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
#philosophy #philsky
www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com
I totally agree and I don’t want to suggest that only bad things happen in interactions with social AI, I’m interested in the wide variety of experiences people have. My broader interest, though, is how we can all construct realities with AI that are increasingly personalised and self-involving
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I totally agree and I don’t want to suggest that only bad things happen in interactions with social AI, I’m interested in the wide variety of experiences people have. My broader interest, though, is how we can all construct realities with AI that are increasingly personalised and self-involving
The empirical data is still unclear and rests on anecdotal reports from users and clinicians, so a lot of this work is speculative. What might be noteworthy is how chatbots are an easily accessible like-minded person that is designed to co-create with you, which not all people will engage in
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The empirical data is still unclear and rests on anecdotal reports from users and clinicians, so a lot of this work is speculative. What might be noteworthy is how chatbots are an easily accessible like-minded person that is designed to co-create with you, which not all people will engage in
Deadline for abstracts: 28 Nov 2025
Full call for abstracts info and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Full call for abstracts info and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Social AI: A Workshop - Abstract Submissions
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 28 November 2025
Dates: 10 & 11 February 2026
Location: Byrne House, University of Exeter (in person)
The rise of Generative AI in recent years has, not surprisingl...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Deadline for abstracts: 28 Nov 2025
Full call for abstracts info and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Full call for abstracts info and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Loved every second! more soon pls ❤️
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Loved every second! more soon pls ❤️
I explore these ideas and more in my preprint, “Hallucinating with AI: AI psychosis and distributed delusions”, where I argue that we need to move beyond thinking about AI “hallucinating at us” to understanding how we “hallucinate with AI”
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arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588
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arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588
Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions
There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok create. In popular terminology, these have been dubbed AI hallucinations. H...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I explore these ideas and more in my preprint, “Hallucinating with AI: AI psychosis and distributed delusions”, where I argue that we need to move beyond thinking about AI “hallucinating at us” to understanding how we “hallucinate with AI”
#philsky
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588
#philsky
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588
Thanks to Robert Hart for taking the time to chat to me about AI psychosis!
September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thanks to Robert Hart for taking the time to chat to me about AI psychosis!