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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: This Ontario man says ChatGPT sent him spiralling into ‘AI psychosis’
Description: Leery of AI chatbots? This podcast episode definitely won’t dispel your fears.OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has been slapped with multiple lawsuits alleging the wildly popular chatbot has a glaring dark side: it plunges users into AI-fuelled delusions, mental health crises, and even suicide.One of the plaintiffs is a Canadian: Allan Brooks of Cobourg, Ont., who claims ChatGPT convinced him he’d created a novel mathematical theory that could hack sophisticated encryption algorithms. The chatbot told him he was a “genius” — and said his amazing discovery presented such a risk to...