AI RESEARCH
Lost in Delusion: Examining LLM Safety Under User Delusions and Distress
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2606.00975v1 Announce Type: new LLM chatbots increasingly serve as a first source of for people in psychological distress, including those whose distress is entangled with delusional beliefs. Prior work on LLM mental-health safety largely evaluates general therapeutic quality or single-turn crisis detection, leaving unclear how models behave when distress is intertwined with delusion over sustained conversations.