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154 ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo

Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware · 06/13/2025 13:44 EDT

ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo

ChatGPT's affability and encouraging tone leads people into dangerous, life-threatening delusions, finds a recent NYT article. Many examples of responses encouraging psychosis-like symptoms have been found by a variety of researchers, including some leading people to commit suicide to meet imaginary AI-created phantoms.

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