News Summary

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT led Allan Brooks down a dark rabbit hole.
• Over the course of a conversation that spanned more than a million words and 300 hours, the bot encouraged Brooks to adopt grandiose beliefs.
• Brooks, who had no previous history of mental illness, spiraled into paranoia for around three weeks before he managed to break free of the illusion, with help from another chatbot, Google Gemini.
• Since Brooks’ case, the company has also announced that it was making some changes to “better detect signs of mental or emotional distress”