Diagnostic Seigniorage II predicts the social career of the sign “AI psychosis” rather than deciding whether every phenomenon gathered beneath it is one condition.
The paper identifies four early strata: clinical-speculative use, journalistic catch-all, industry risk category, and accusatory vernacular. The same sign circulates with incompatible meanings before receiving any stable nosological anchor.
Its precedent is the capture of “narcissist”: technical issue, clinical circulation, vernacular capture, accusatory inversion, bleach, and residue. The new sign is expected to move faster because the medium is itself party to the accusation, classificatory looping runs through model corpora, and saturation may degrade the systems people consult to recognize the phenomenon.
The paper discloses its own holdings. The Archive used “ChatGPT Psychosis” as a literary and scholarly title before the wider vernacular crest. Its predictions therefore include one against its own discoverability.
Eight predictions address nosological abstention, case-report growth and fragmentation, second-person accusation, reciprocal model-assisted diagnosis, litigation, sanitized successor terms, brand-to-generic migration, bleach, and classifier degradation. Each carries an operationalization and falsifier, with midpoint and terminal mirror-ledger audits promised.
The work’s central object is the sign’s economy: who can issue it, who gains authority from it, how accusation changes the accused, and how overuse can destroy the alarm precisely when careful description is most needed.