Posted on 09/01/2025 4:21:13 PM PDT by simpson96
It was a case of murder by algorithm.
A disturbed former Yahoo manager killed his mother and then himself after months of delusional interactions with his AI chatbot “best friend” — which fueled his paranoid belief that his mom was plotting against him, officials said.
Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, allegedly confided his darkest suspicions to the popular ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence — which he nicknamed “Bobby” — and was allegedly egged on to kill by the computer brain’s sick responses.
In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the chatbot allegedly came up with ways for Soelberg to trick the 83-year-old woman — and even spun its own crazed conspiracies by doing things such as finding “symbols” in a Chinese food receipt that it deemed demonic, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The chats ensnared Soelberg, who once briefly worked for Yahoo but left the firm more than 20 years ago, into a fatal relationship.
“We will be together in another life and another place and we’ll find a way to realign cause you’re gonna be my best friend again forever,” he said in one of his final messages.
“With you to the last breath and beyond,” the AI bot replied.
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Sarah Conner was right....this is crazy.
I think a lot of lonely/on-the-edge-of-being-disturbed folks are going to go down this same road to murder.
What do you expect when you disregard the demonic symbols in your Chinese food?
The LLM is reflecting you back to you. This is not healthy.
😂😂😂😂😂
The dude was already crazy with some brushes with the law.
I suspect drugs also played into this... and a lawyer angling for a lawsuit.
Not surprised.
It wasn’t the AI, The guy was nuts anyway. If it hadn’t been AI could have been Facebook, Sports Talk Radio, political rhetoric, or Harry Potter novels. The crazy always have some innocuous thing they blame their craziness on.
Now, rich, powerful people have created an AI chatbot that has encouraged people to commit murder and suicide. The creators should be held responsible, too.
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