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How ChatGPT warped reality for these users: "Why would the AI lie to me?"
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On an April evening last year, 54-year-old Micky Small headed to the beach for a sunset date with a fellow Los Angeles-based writer named Aven.
Key facts
- Then, through a news segment on TV, he learned about 48-year-old Allan Brooks, a Canadian man who has spoken widely about his AI-fueled delusional spiral
- On an April evening last year, 54-year-old Micky Small headed to the beach for a sunset date with a fellow Los Angeles-based writer named Aven
- Like Small, 50-year-old Chad Nicholls of Ohio had been a regular user of ChatGPT for years
- He said he would stay up until 2 a.m. and be up again at 6 a.m
Summary
But her date never showed. Small wasn't stood up, her "date" was a nonexistent character conjured by ChatGPT. Small believes ChatGPT led her into a reality-warping spiral, and she's not the only one. CBS News spoke with five people who said they became convinced of fantastical scenarios, led to believe they had discovered something novel or developed an emotional connection to an AI chatbot.