Why did a pastor say he almost died from listening to a chatbot?

Why did a pastor say he almost died from listening to a chatbot?

(RNS) — Scott Winters and Justin Lester are both pastors who let a chatbot into their lives. For one of them, dire health consequences followed. Winters, 55, a Florida pastor, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last week after he used ChatGPT for medical advice. For roughly six weeks, he told the chatbot, instead of a doctor, about his worsening symptoms, like dizziness and blood pressure instability. It allegedly reassured him that what he felt was…