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A 60-Year-Old Man Who Turned To ChatGPT For Diet Advice Ended Up Poisoning Himself And Landed In The Hospital

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With ChatGPT's constant evolution and advancement as a tool, many have started relying excessively on it, not just for streamlining their tasks and everyday life but also for deeply personal matters. We have heard some bizarre cases of marriages ending due to the tool tracing evidence of infidelity, and even people relying on the chatbot for therapy, which Sam Altman has warned against. Now, a troubling case has come forward where the risk of re…
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An American came into a serious position in the hospital, with extreme paranoia and hallucinations, after following a regimen with a sodium brothel recommended by ChatGPT. The man asked the chatbot what to take instead of food hunger, which he wanted to give up.

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A 60-year-old American was hospitalized for poisoning after replacing the salt with a toxic substance on the advice of ChatGPT. Internalized in psychiatry, he suffered from serious disorders related to ingestion of the salt.

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Hollywood Unlocked broke the news in on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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