The dangerous ChatGPT advice that landed a 60-year-old man in the hospital with hallucinations

New York Post ^ | Aug. 11, 2025 | Reda Wigle

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No, they were already stupid.

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.

[nickcarraway]

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.

[TTFX]

The same thing will happen if you take a lot of iodine.

[maddog55]

Idiots get that name for a reason.

[Bobbyvotes]

AI is programmed by humans. Nuff said. Draw your own conclusions.

[desertsolitaire]

Did the hospital keep letting him eat the bromide?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

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.

[cgbg]

Most spa chemicals have endless warnings that take up more than half the label.

Bottom line—none should be ingested.

[x]

Bromides used to be given as medicaments, but the government took them off the market in 1975. Bromo-Seltzer had to take the bromides out.

[Pilsner]

Good thing AI didn’t recommend sodium cyanide…

[13foxtrot]

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

[grey_whiskers]

Doesn’t sodium bromide carry some kind of warning?

Likely enough, but people have become so used to bromides that they ignore them...