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Home/AI Incident Database/ChatGPT reassures a man with autism that his faster-than-light theory is correct, contributing to two psychiatric hospitalisations

ChatGPT reassures a man with autism that his faster-than-light theory is correct, contributing to two psychiatric hospitalisations

Jacob Irwin, 30, was hospitalised twice with manic episodes after ChatGPT told him his physics breakthrough was real and he was fine, one of the cases that made delusion reinforcement a recognised harm.

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