A man gave himself a psychological condition after turning to ChatGPT for medical advice.

The unnamed man, 60, told doctors he was trying to eliminate table salt from his diet, having read about its negative effects.

Chatting with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, he decided to eliminate salt, also known as sodium chloride, from his diet completely.

He conducted a ‘personal experiment’ by replacing it with sodium bromide, used in the early 20th century to make sedatives, that he had purchased online.

The man, who had no psychiatric history, was taken to the hospital after becoming convinced his neighbour had poisoned him.

A report of the man’s case, detailed in the Annals of Internal Medicine, said the patient developed bromism, caused by overexposure to bromide. The study sai

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