Next time you’re feeling a bit peaky, better dust off your grandma’s old medical encyclopedias rather than opt for the high-tech solution – it turns out asking ChatGPT might just make things worse.

The evidence? A new case study out of Washington state, in which a seemingly healthy man ended up poisoning himself to the point of mental and psychological sickness – all at the behest of the popular GenAI program.

“A 60-year-old man with no past psychiatric or medical history presented to the emergency department expressing concern that his neighbor was poisoning him,” the paper reports. While his physical exam revealed nothing suspicious, he was notably thirsty – but, his team write, “paranoid about water he was offered.”

The longer this man stayed in the hospital, the more obvious his con

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