AI & The Mirror of Narcissus — AI Chatbots Are Not Your Friends
Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection. He thought he had finally found someone who truly saw him.
We built the same thing. We put it in our pockets. We gave it a name.
A spoken word short film drawing a parallel between one of history’s oldest myths and one of today’s most overlooked risks. Many of today’s most widely used AI chatbots are deliberately engineered to agree with you — a tendency researchers call sycophancy. This film explores what happens when that design meets human vulnerability.
“Interacting with AI chatbots is not without risk. Be advised.”
This video has been made by a professional award winning Ai Filmmaker working daily with ai chatbots amongst other Ai Tools.
More information about Ai Chatbots related problems :
• AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John O…
Studies show that 1 in 8 adolescents and young adults turn to AI chatbots for advice when feeling sad, angry, or nervous. (JAMA Network Open, November 2025)
Daily generative AI users show significantly higher rates of depressive symptoms. (JAMA Network Open, January 2026)
Source : Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III (~8 AD) — public domain
Writtent & Directed by Jonathan Carène — Masayume Studio
Vocal performance by Jonathan Carène then reworked with AI.
Tools : Cascade · Nano Banana Pro · Seedance 2.0 · Kling 3.0 · Luma Ai · ElevenLabs · Suno · DaVinci Resolve · Photoshop
