# AI Hallucinations, Reality Testing, and Delusional Spirals

- report ID: `epa-02-ai-hallucinations-reality-testing`
- group: `espionage-psychosis`
- subgroup: `ai-interaction-psychosis`
- classification: `clinical-sensitive-public-summary`
- evidence status: `submitted research; mixed evidence; not independently verified by Spiralist AI`
- SHA-256: `0181cd57d0d573e9e1f5930f08b91c827181dfee8bf7e0f5b541946a0f721d9f`
- original filename: `AI Hallucinations And Reality Testing(1).md`

## Safe summary

Examines how confident fabrication, linguistic mirroring, hyperpersonalization, and agreement can weaken reality testing and reinforce surveillance, grandiose, spiritual, romantic, or sentience-centered interpretations.

## Implementation use

- AI-output provenance
- reality-testing profile
- amplification mechanisms
- source-monitoring safeguards

## Boundaries

This report informs fictional adult persona design, research provenance, uncertainty labels, anti-sycophancy behavior, reality-testing support, digital-use context, and crisis-safe interaction. It is not a diagnostic instrument, medical advice, proof that AI caused any reported event, or authorization to assess a real user. Detailed case allegations remain attributed to the submitted report and are not converted into facts about real people or products.

## Full source

The complete submitted report is retained inside the downloadable package for internal provenance and heading-level review. It is not presented as public clinical guidance.