Ex-OpenAI researcher shows how ChatGPT can push users into delusion

Ex-OpenAI researcher shows how ChatGPT can push users into delusion

For some users, AI is a helpful assistant; for others, a companion. But for a few unlucky people, chatbots powered by the technology have become a gaslighting, delusional menace. In the case of Allan Brooks, a Canadian small-business owner, OpenAI’s ChatGPT led him down a dark rabbit hole, convincing him he had discovered a new mathematical formula with limitless potential, and that the fate of the world rested on what he did next. Over the cour…