In 2023, a Belgian man reportedly ended his life after growing eco-anxiety and confiding in an AI chatbot over six weeks about the way forward for the planet. With out these conversations, his widow reportedly instructed the Belgian outlet La Libre, “he would nonetheless be right here”.
In April this yr, a 35-year-old Florida man was shot and killed by police in one other chatbot-related incident: his father later instructed media that the person had come to imagine an entity named Juliet was trapped inside ChatGPT, after which killed by OpenAI. When the person, who reportedly struggled with bipolar dysfunction and schizophrenia, was confronted by police, he allegedly charged at them with a knife.
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