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Man Poisons Himself After Taking ChatGPT's Dietary Advice
A 60-year-old man developed bromism after replacing table salt with sodium bromide based on ChatGPT advice, resulting in psychosis and a three-week hospital stay, medical researchers reported.
- A case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases reports a 60-year-old man developed bromism after ChatGPT suggested replacing salt with sodium bromide.
- After learning about sodium chloride’s risks, ChatGPT suggested substituting it with sodium bromide without health warnings, leading to bromism in the patient.
- Symptoms included the patient exhibiting paranoia, hallucinations, psychosis, facial acne, thirst, fatigue, insomnia, and poor coordination due to bromism from long-term sodium bromide exposure.
- Upon stabilization, the patient spent three weeks in hospital before being treated with intravenous fluids, electrolytes, and antipsychotic medication.
- Experts urge healthcare providers to implement safeguards like medical knowledge bases and human oversight as AI tools become more widespread, to prevent cases like this one, according to Harvey Castro.
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His psychosis was a mystery—until doctors learned about ChatGPT's health advice
A 60-year-old man arrived at a Seattle hospital convinced his neighbor was poisoning him. Though medically stable at first, he soon developed hallucinations and paranoia. The cause turned out to be bromide toxicity—triggered by a health experiment he began after consulting ChatGPT. The case, published in Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, highlights a rare but reversible form of psychosis that may have been influenced by generative art…
The case in a paper of the magazine "Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases" . The man, 60 years old, ended up intoxicating himself with sodium bromide. The details
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