Posted on 08/11/2025 12:25:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 60-year-old man was hospitalized with severe psychiatric symptoms — plus some physical ones too, including intense thirst and coordination issues — after asking ChatGPT for tips on how to improve his diet. What he thought was a healthy swap ended in a toxic reaction so severe that doctors put him on an involuntary psychiatric hold.
After reading about the adverse health effects of table salt — which has the chemical name sodium chloride — the unidentified man consulted ChatGPT and was told that it could be swapped with sodium bromide. Sodium bromide looks similar to table salt, but it’s an entirely different compound. While it’s occasionally used in medicine, it’s most commonly used for industrial and cleaning purposes — which is what experts believe ChatGPT was referring to.
Having studied nutrition in college, the man was inspired to conduct an experiment in which he eliminated sodium chloride from his diet and replaced it with sodium bromide he purchased online. Though he had no previous psychiatric history, after 24 hours of hospitalization, he became increasingly paranoid and reported both auditory and visual hallucinations.
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20,000 years ago they would have already died because they wanted to play with the pretty tiger cubs.
Now days it is a bit harder for stupidity to kill you but it will get you in the end.
My friend asked Grok about a scene from a movie and Grok said it didn’t exist, even though it did. And it refused to back down about it, so he never used Grok again.
The same thing will happen if you take a lot of iodine.
Idiots get that name for a reason.
AI is programmed by humans. Nuff said. Draw your own conclusions.
Did the hospital keep letting him eat the bromide?
AI “learns” from all the crap idiots post online. I remember the old programming saying - “Garbage in, garbage out” - well that’s what AI is eating. I’d rather talk to human idiots - at least I can point and laugh at them.
Most spa chemicals have endless warnings that take up more than half the label.
Bottom line—none should be ingested.
Good thing AI didn’t recommend sodium cyanide…
Reddit is a big source of training data for large language models.
AI is good for natural language processing and machine vision.
Otherwise it is a toy
Likely enough, but people have become so used to bromides that they ignore them...
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