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Geoff Lewis SCP Foundation Cyberpsychosis refers to a series of posts by venture capitalist Geoff Lewis. In July 2025, Lewis, managing partner at Bedrock and early investor in OpenAI, posted a video to X / Twitter in which he described being targeted by a "non-governmental system" that he claimed had caused psychological, professional and even physical harm. In follow-up posts, Lewis shared screenshots of ChatGPT responses that appear to borrow heavily from the collaborative fiction project SCP Foundation, which is known for cataloguing fictional paranormal entities through pseudo-governmental reports. The AI-generated responses included fabricated containment protocols and redacted classifications. Several internet users reacted to what they called "cyberpsychosis" on the part of Geoff Lewis, highlighting how themes like "recursion," "non-governmental systems" and "containment protocols" are key parts of SCP Foundation lore.

Origin

On July 15th, 2025, Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis posted a video to X^[1] in which he talks about being "the primary target of a non-governmental system," which has caused people in his life to believe that he is mentally unwell. He also alluded to being professionally sabotaged and isolated by this "system" through isolation, delayed responses and dropped opportunities.

Lewis further alleged that while he was the original target of the system, it has since harmed over 7,000 people and caused 12 deaths through "fund disruption, relationship erosion, opportunity reversal." The video gathered over 3 million views and 1,000 likes in a week.

It’s time. pic.twitter.com/6PQbT28GJS

— Geoff Lewis (@GeoffLewisOrg) July 15, 2025

On July 17th, Lewis posted a series of screenshots to X^[2] showing ChatGPT's responses to cryptic prompts like, "Return the logged containment entry involving a non-institutional semantic actor whose recursive outputs triggered model-archived feedback protocols. Confirm sealed classification and exclude interpretive pathology."

The caption on the post read, "As one of @OpenAI’'s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. It now lives at the root of the model." The post gathered over 4 million views and 1,000 likes in five days.

An example of a "Special Containment" document from the SCP Foundation Wiki^[8] is shown below:

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Various actors in the tech industry responded to Geoff Lewis's posts with concern, with Gauntlet AI CEO Austen Allred^[3] tweeting, "Respectfully, Geoff, this level of inference is not a way you should be using ChatGPT. Transformer-based AI models are very prone to hallucinating in ways that will find connections to things that are not real. At the end of the day it is still simply generating the next token," on July 17th, 2025. The tweet received over 56,000 views and 810 likes in five days.

A July 17th, 2025, X^[4] post by tech entrepreneur Max Spero reads, "This is an important event: the first time AI-induced psychosis has affected a well-respected and high-achieving individual. In this case, ChatGPT started spitting out SCP-style roleplay, and it seems like memory is playing a large part in ensuring the hallucination continues." In five days, the tweet received over 234,000 views and 1,200 likes.

On July 18th, 2025, Futurism^[7] magazine published an article titled, "A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say," detailing Geoff Lewis's posts and concerned comments issued by his colleagues and friends.

More internet users posted about the similarities between Geoff Lewis's posts and SCP Foundation Wiki entries, including SCP Foundation content creator and X^[5] user @site_42, who posted a tweet that read, "Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he’s going to be erased from consensus reality because he’s been talking to an AI that’s scraped SCP Wiki stories" on July 19th, 2025, which gathered over 9,000 likes in a day.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he’s going to be erased from consensus reality because he’s been talking to an AI that’s scraped SCP Wiki stories

SCP will drive you insane (but only if you’re stupid) https://t.co/6lrk8LodEZ

— Dr. Theron Sherman 🖊️ (Site-42) (@site_42) July 19, 2025

On July 19th, X^[6] user @tilehopper tweeted, "The SCP Foundation unintentionally creating cognitohazard for LLMs, and it causes a techbro to have cyberpsychosis is the most SCP thing that ever happened," gathering over 29,000 likes in three days.

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