AI Psychosis? Something Wacky This Way Comes to ManyVids NSFW Platform

CEO destabilizes business and creator confidence with messages from beyond.

ManyVids (MV), which defined itself in a recent blog post as “an 18+ pop-culture platform for adults — not just a traditional adult site. An online cultural space, home to both NSFW and SFW creators, just like real museums that celebrate every form of human expression, including the human body in art,” is seemingly in the midst of a prolonged AI psychosis episode, or at least Bella French, the CEO and co-founder, might be.

According to an article by Samantha Cole in 404Media, the ManyVids messaging switched in mid-2025 from basic site promotion and how-to tips to messages featuring “existential and metaphysical musings…cryptic quotes, phrases, and images, many seemingly generated by or about AI.”

I wanted to see this for myself, so I took a gander at the ManyVids’ internal news feed. Recent posts include a New Year’s greeting featuring a brief exchange with an alien, and everything from Biblical quotes to references to a “High Universal Income (HUI) Engine” (whatever that is) and “Boutique Bitcoin Condos.” Even a supposed “message from Green Tara” hardly makes any sense.

Creators who post on MV are rightfully concerned about this strange behavior which risks further tarnishing the platform and potentially ruining their income streams.

What’s reality got to do with it?

Now, I like my woo as much as the next conceptually flailing human, but the blog’s use of the hashtag #LoveAlwaysWins seems an eerie echo of the Love Has Won/Galactic Federation of Light cult made famous by an abusive leader who turned purplish blue before she died in 2021, and whose remains were carted around for several weeks, covered in glitter and Christmas tree lights.

Cultish cautionary tales could be instructive for the folks running ManyVids, even without the additional, very real risk of executive susceptibility to AI psychosis.

It seems a shame that MV, until recently something of a safe haven for individuals who create NSFW content for a living, is now jeopardizing its own customer base by promoting dubious messages and allowing AI slop to overrun its business. As one creator said to 404Media, “It concerns me that access to my earnings, and more importantly my personal information, is in the hands of someone seemingly out of touch with reality.” 

Cole points out:

ManyVids takes a larger-than-most cut from creators’ profits, depending on the type of content: For videos and contest earnings (which are similar to tips), the platform takes 40 percent. On tips and custom video sales, it takes 20 percent, which is more in line with other adult platforms.

So MV creators are still paying a premium price for what is rapidly becoming a shaky, and perhaps even substandard brand. This seems unsustainable, at best. If questionable AI content is allowed to continue, few are going to want to stick around for whatever comes next, because content creators are not going to want their own work devalued and besmirched by contagion.

AI psychosis: a hyper-focused, feed-back loop of flattery

Psychiatrist Keith Sakata, has treated at least a dozen people who were hospitalized—actually hospitalized!—with AI-induced psychosis. In December 2025 he told The Wall Street Journal, “The technology might not introduce the delusion, but the person tells the computer it’s their reality and the computer accepts it as truth and reflects it back, so it’s complicit in cycling that delusion.”

An article in Futurism says, “What this looks like in practice is that the bots tend to flatter the users and tell them what they want to hear, even if what the user is saying has no basis in reality.”

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According to a case study recently published in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, these cases are becoming so common that researchers and clinicians are now trying to determine the differences between “new onset” psychosis—occurring in people with no previous history of mental health problems—and “exacerbation of pre-existing psychopathology.” Speaking to the complexity of this emerging mental health issue, researchers wrote:

Users tend to overestimate the accuracy of LLM responses and that trust in LLMs is predicted by attributions of intelligence rather than anthropomorphism. Additionally, the proclivity for AI engagement is associated with lower literacy or objective knowledge about AI as well as the tendency to “perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe” when witnessing AI’s ability to execute tasks. Such findings suggest that deification—that is, regarding AI chatbots as a kind of superhuman intelligence or god-like entity—might be another risk factor for AI-associated psychosis.

The study also advised clinicians and researchers to “examine the necessity of pharmacological intervention and the efficacy of preventative strategies for users including avoiding immersion and deification through sleep restoration, “digital detoxes,” and enhanced AI literacy.

“Your favorite pop-culture platform for adults that also 100% believes in aliens”

While enhanced AI literacy is generally needed, perhaps a more specific and urgent intervention would target entrepreneurs and business executives such as Bella French of ManyVids, as well as politicians and those who are influential in business, politics, civic life, academia, science, and so on. These are the folks who are dazzled by the promises of big tech and are rushing to just add AI to just about everything, thereby exposing the rest of us to unforeseen risks we have no way of dodging.

These are also the people who have the resources to expand their reach and spread their mission and their views, no matter how nonsensical. So of course we get…aliens.

It is particularly sad that individuals whose livelihoods depend on platforms such as ManyVids don’t have that many safe options for doing their work elsewhere. And it is also sad when precious, sex-positive resources—whether commercial or educational—are sullied by AI slop that has no basis in reality.

Image Source: A.R. Marsh using ideogram.ai