By Frank Landymore
Publication Date: 2025-12-24 16:30:00
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for Coachella
Claire “Grimes” Boucher says you’re really missing out if you don’t experience a mental health crisis through an AI chatbot.
Seriously. We don’t put words in her mouth.
On Monday, the pop musician and Elon Musk’s baby mama had everyone wondering if she was suffering from so-called AI psychosis after she appeared to advocate for suffering from – you guessed it – AI psychosis.
“The thing about AI psychosis is that it’s more fun than not having AI psychosis,” she wrote in an after-hours tweet, seemingly without any statement.
Her hot take was immediately met with backlash.
“AI psychosis killed people, Grimes,” responded film concept artist Reid Southen. “It’s no fun.”
It is undoubtedly a strange position. It’s one thing to be “extremely optimistic” about AI, as Grimes…
