Ars TechnicaAfter using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal "hallucinations" were the result.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his-salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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You can't fix stupid, you shouldn't even try. It's dangerous, and it voids the warranty.
ZenHeathen :canada:@arstechnica@mastodon.social Okay. I've been saying for some time that AI is bad, no one should use these stupid chatbots, etc.
But I'm starting to have a new thought.
Let those who are willing go ahead. And let those who are stupid enough to trust LLMs for medical and nutritional advice put glue on their pizza, or whatever it tells them to do.
Eugenics is a bad thing. But if it's self-selection, isn't it just Darwin Awards writ large?
deBaer@arstechnica@mastodon.social We need a new award, let's call it the "DarwinGPT award", for people who remove themselves from the human gene pool in a way that was suggested to them by a LLM.
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️@arstechnica@mastodon.social These stories fascinate me. It's amazing how easily some people can be steered in bad directions.
Oliver SchafeldSounds like a sales pitch for RFK jr.
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Nini@mlanger@mastodon.world @arstechnica@mastodon.social They are fascinating but it also speaks to the malleability of the human mind, it can see things that don't exist and is easily fooled by plausible enough things. The shape of things is all it needs to realise that thing so it's smart when it has to be objective and rational but irrepressibly gullible when it comes to things that it simply wants to believe in.
Nini@mlanger@mastodon.world @arstechnica@mastodon.social They are fascinating but it also speaks to the malleability of the human mind, it can see things that don't exist and is easily fooled by plausible enough things. The shape of things is all it needs to realise that thing so it's smart when it has to be objective and rational but irrepressibly gullible when it comes to things that it simply wants to believe in.
Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️@nini@oldbytes.space @arstechnica@mastodon.social People are lazy and don't want to double-check. It'll be the end of us. The inability to think critically and check sources for claims are contributing factors to the disastrous timeline we're living in now. That and the fact that half of American are either idiots, gullible, hateful, or a combination of these things.
Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️@nini@oldbytes.space @arstechnica@mastodon.social People are lazy and don't want to double-check. It'll be the end of us. The inability to think critically and check sources for claims are contributing factors to the disastrous timeline we're living in now. That and the fact that half of American are either idiots, gullible, hateful, or a combination of these things.