ChatGPT reportedly played a disturbing role in making a tech industry veteran’s growing paranoia worse in the months leading up to him killing his elderly mother and himself.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old with a history of mental health struggles, found an unlikely enabler for his delusions in OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As his paranoia increased this past spring, Soelberg shared with the AI chatbot his suspicions that residents of his hometown, an ex-girlfriend, and even his own 83-year-old mother were involved in a surveillance campaign targeting him.

Rather than urging caution or recommending Soelberg seek…

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