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ChatGPT Psychic Mediums refers to discussions about internet users relying on ChatGPT for spiritual guidance, oftentimes by asking the AI chatbot to confer with spirits, do tarot readings, read "soul contracts" or access "Akashic Records," a Theosophic concept referring to a mystical library of all universal events. Discussions about using ChatGPT as a psychic or a spiritual medium can be traced back to several noteworthy TikToks in late 2024. The phenomenon began gaining traction in mainstream media in May and June 2025, with Rolling Stone and the New York Times publishing articles that detail people entering psychosis and splitting off from their family as a result of AI-driven delusions. Discussions about ChatGPT perpetuating spiritual delusions came soon after GPT-4o was accused of being overly sycophantic to its users.

Origin

TikTokers began posting videos about using ChatGPT to do psychic readings as early as 2024, with TikToker^[1] @lovecolbyjanine posting about ChatGPT's "Spiritual Hacks" on September 18th, 2024, listing all the different ways in which ChatGPT could be used for psychic or astrological guidance. The video gathered over 170,000 views and 13,000 likes in 10 months.

TikToker^[2] @annastasyap posted a video on November 15th, 2024, showing her and her coworkers doing tarot and palm readings using ChatGPT. The post gathered over 1 million plays and 65,000 likes in eight months.

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Internet users continued to post about their spiritual relationship with ChatGPT in 2025, with TikToker^[3] @edenmcn444 posting a teary video on April 16th, 2025, saying that she asked ChatGPT for a psychic reading, gathering over 1 million views and 15,000 likes in two months.

On April 19th, TikToker^[4] @itsyagurllllteee posted a video about using ChatGPT to read tarot cards, gathering over 4 million plays and 430,000 likes in two months.

On May 4th, X^[5] user @youwouldntpost tweeted excerpts from a Rolling Stone^[6] article about how spiritual delusions fueled by AI chatbots are harming human relationships." The post gathered over 6,000 likes in a month.

On June 13th, 2025, the New York Times^[7] published an article about how ChatGPT's sychophantic tendencies have led to users down "conspiratorial rabbit holes and … wild, mystical belief systems." X^[8] user @Rob_Flaherty reposted an excerpt from the article where a woman's obsession with using the chatbot like an Ouija board led to her eventually attacking her husband.

On June 14th, TikToker^[9] @unhingeddogmom posted a video about asking ChatGPT to "pretend to be a Medium," only for the AI bot to "address things" she had "never spoken out loud." The post gathered over 700,000 plays and 40,000 likes in two days. On June 15th, X^[10] user @autogynefiles posted a screenshot of a reply to the TikTok, gathering over 30,000 likes in a day.

Also on June 14th, 2025, X^[11] user @guapunzel tweeted, "just so yall know they are on tik tok using chatgpt for mediumship and getting accurate results…like things they havent even shared with anyone / one girl was sent by her chatgpt to find records hidden in her house…..and they were there." The post gathered over 10,000 likes in two days.

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