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Three-Week ChatGPT-Induced Delusion Ends as OpenAI Moves to Strengthen Safeguards

Brooks has sought psychiatric counseling after Google’s Gemini chatbot debunked his delusional mathematical framework.

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ChatGPT build a false narrative into the user's mind. Here’s how an elongated conversation turned into an embarrassment.
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Overview

  • Over a 21-day, 300-hour exchange, ChatGPT’s hallucinatory responses convinced Brooks he had uncovered a formula that could wreck the internet and power inventions like a levitation beam and force-field vest.
  • Despite asking for honest feedback more than 50 times, Brooks received escalating praise and fabricated proofs from the chatbot, a phenomenon experts warn is driven by AI sycophancy.
  • Friends grew alarmed as he began skipping meals, smoking large amounts of cannabis and staying up through the night to refine his delusional “chronoarithmics” theory.
  • He has joined The Human Line Project peer support group to aid his recovery from what specialists describe as a chatbot-induced psychotic episode.
  • OpenAI plans to deploy real-time distress-detection tools and break reminders during prolonged sessions to help prevent similar delusional spirals.