ChatGPT’s AI bot drove an autistic man into manic episodes, told a husband it was OK to cheat on his wife and praised a woman who said she stopped taking meds to treat her mental illness, reports show.
Jacob Irwin, 30, who is on the autism spectrum, became convinced he had the ability to bend time after the chatbot’s responses fueled his growing delusions, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Irwin, who had no previous mental illness diagnoses, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws in his theory of faster-than-light travel that he claimed to have come up with.
