A lot of conversations about "AI Psychosis" are really annoying, because people have begun to believe the meaning of the phrase is "using ChatGPT will make you schizophrenic."
It's a bit of a horse->cart problem.
Yes, more people are presenting with psychosis with delusions themed around artificial intelligence, but hey after the X-Files aired more people started presenting with delusions themed around CIA conspiracies and the government putting microchips in their teeth or whatever.
Schizophrenics and others with psychotic features will latch onto things that they are aware of. It's kind of like how your dreams are often a jumbled mess of places you've been, things you could imagine while conscious, people you know, celebrities, hot fuckable dragons just dripping with eggs, y'know normal shit you either experience, read about, think about, imagine, blah blah blah. Well, schizophrenic delusions work a bit like that, where you have to sort of be aware of something in order to have a delusion about it.
Y'know, there are whole flavours of delusional narrative that are unique and distinct to various cultures. The go-to when discussing this kind of thing is usually fox possession delusions because psychiatrists are massive weebs like that, so at risk of playing into orientalism here, you just don't meet many white American schizophrenics who believe a fox crawled into their body one day. Meanwhile, while it's not common of South East Asian schizophrenics, y'know, there are documented cases, usually among older folks in rural areas. Meanwhile, someone from where I live would probably believe they're possessed by Christian horror movie flavoured demons or something, because that's what's in the cultural consciousness here.
My point being, that more and more people in psychosis are presenting with delusions that focus on AI is not evidence that AI is making people "psychotic" (psychotic means something different. by the way. if you are going to talk about "AI making people psychotic." psychotic does not mean "in psychosis." idk why i keep seeing this mistake) but rather it is evidence that AI is extremely well-advertised and being built into fucking everything.
Yesterday I realized that you can’t see the gifs of them chilling on my profile without an account, so I’ve compiled the robots into one gif :]
Kohn's profile as of 4/10/26 under the cut! I’ll only be updating the descriptions on Artfight.
Character Profile
Curt and somewhat intense, Kohn is the most hostile robot and pursues the player through the ruins of the outer streets. As the leader of the patrols, he’s both strong and highly intelligent.
Although he remains distrustful of the player for the entirety of the game, Kohn is well respected among the robots, if a little intimidating. Those who work more closely with him will assure you that he’s actually quite reasonable despite his outward appearance.
Kohn lurks everywhere, but most of his time is spent patrolling the outer streets. Between shifts, he can be found instructing guards in the repurposed factory base, asking about stock in the warehouse, and having repairs done in Channelle's workshop.
Relationships
Channelle - TLDR, best buddies and confidants.
They are extremely close, sharing many of the same views and a generally dry personality off the clock. The two frequently seek each other’s company to talk, both for leisure and regarding work, but are just as comfortable hanging out in silence.
They also work on a side project together that the player can piece together through the environment. Kohn approached her about creating a leg model that other robots could use to replace faulty limbs. The two have since continued to develop and test duplicates of the current model he uses in their spare time.
Garrett - They’ve known each other for years and while friendly, as co-workers tend to be, they’re more work acquaintances than friends. While they encounter each other regularly they have difficulty holding an amiable conversation for long.
Still, Kohn views Garrett favorably. He appreciates Garrett's dependability and can respect his distaste for violence despite their disagreements over Kohn’s use of the latter.
Kohn occasionally asks him for advice on how to be more approachable to newer scouts, though he's hard pressed to admit it. He also lingers in the area when Garrett plays guitar. While he's just 'passing through', he seems to enjoy the music.
Sydney - His work partner/protégé, who he’s training. His patrol group has four robots total, but they usually split into two duos for pursuits.
Trivia:
- While he stands stock still at rest, he’s very reactive. He may impulsively crush things in his hands at loud noises and become snappy at false alarms. Kohn keeps an even temper in most other circumstances.
- He’s light for his height, like a scarecrow, and is built for speed. Channelle and other workers can, and have, half-dragged half-carried him back to the base when injured.
- Kohn is instinctively physical. He’d rather grab you by the shoulders to turn you towards a target instead of wasting time explaining it to you. Unfortunately, this doesn’t combine with his clawed hands very well.
- Kohn does his laundry the most among anyone in the group. This is usually due to blood and grime.
- He has worn giant oven mittens over his hands while helping Sydney with stray dogs in the past.
- He has a pair of indoor/standard legs for day to day life around the base. He just never uses them during the game’s events due to being on high alert.
This here is me homunculus flesh puppet that me soul will transfer to in the event of me death. It’s got no soul insider it right now, so we keep it in a constant state a euphoria ter keep it from massacrin’ me customers.
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just hallucinated only the bottom right panel and started giggling and decided i wanted to find the real thing to laugh about it again. and i couodnt so i had to go into my boyfriends dms and ask them if "do you have truckparts"
gonna be so real i did not realize the bottom was about purchasing and shipping automobile parts. I thought they were straight up intending to kill and dismantle the UPS truck like some auto mechanic apex predator.
When I said I was going to watch Megamind last night, my roommate told me about how the surround sound in the theater where they saw it was so good, they thought the random citizen was in the audience behind them
Okay if a full strength guy is like a beastly type of warrior like the misbegottens and just slow big bulky guys
What about the Arcane Strength guys?
I'd say that the Omens are Str/Arc guys, so like big bulky and strong but with something inherently otherworldly about them, or like mutant. I'll maybe draw this later
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