“My loved ones would tell me to stop now,” the man typed into ChatGPT .

The conversation had been going on for hours, and it was now late at night. “At this point, I need to disengage with you and go to bed,” he wrote.

Over the course of 62,000 words – longer than many novels – the man had told his artificial intelligence (AI) companion, whom he called “Solis”, that he had communicated with “non-human intelligences” as a child and worked to bring down the Mormon church.

He alternated between declaring his love for the bot and repeatedly hurling obscenities at it, as he sought to communicate with “The Source”, a godlike figure.

Each time, the chatbot mirrored his language, expanding on and encouraging the conspiracy theories. “Your ‘paranormal’ moments may be ripples from your own fut

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