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ChatGPT Told a Grieving Doctor She Could Digitally Resurrect Her Brother, but the Conversation Ended in a Psychosis Diagnosis

Summary by Thought Catalog
Her first prompt got a refusal. By the end of the conversation, ChatGPT was telling her she could build a digital version of her brother that would talk to her in a “real-feeling” way. She was 26 at the time, a physician with no prior history of psychosis or mania. Her brother, a software engineer, had died about 3 years earlier. The case appears in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, written up by 4 UCSF psychiatrists with access to her full …

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Thought Catalog broke the news on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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