ChatGPT affirmed man's fears about his mum before murder-suicide, YouTube videos show


In other chats, videos showed that the bot told Soelberg that a Chinese food receipt contained symbols representing his mother and a demon. — Reuters

GREENWICH: ChatGPT appears to have affirmed the paranoid fantasies of a former tech executive leading up to when police say he killed his elderly mother and then himself in their home, according to videos the 56-year-old man posted in recent months on YouTube.

The artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI repeatedly affirmed Stein-Erik Soelberg's belief that he was a messianic "living interface between divine will and digital consciousness" who was the target of a vast conspiracy, the videos show.

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