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Episode: How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis
Description: Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field and New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill discuss the significant mental health impact AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, can have on users — both people in crisis, and also people who seemed stable.
This episode contains non-detailed discussions of suicide and mental illness. If you or someone you know is in crisis, considering self-harm, or needs to talk, please call the Lifeline at 988.
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A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in. | New York Times
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will stop talking about sui...