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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Honestly not sure what to say except INSANITY!!!!

Three months later, the man showed up at his local emergency room. His neighbor, he said, was trying to poison him. Though extremely thirsty, the man was paranoid about accepting the water that the hospital offered him, telling doctors that he had begun distilling his own water at home and that he was on an extremely restrictive vegetarian diet. He did not mention the sodium bromide or the ChatGPT discussions.

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to think education help people make right choice. I am rethinking that position now.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Education is supposed to teach "how to learn to learn".

Left to his own devices, then, without knowing quite what to ask or how to interpret the responses, the man in this case study "did his own research"

The whole thing with "do your own research", is kind of funny:

some use it to avoid explaining their points
others use it to come up with a lot of nonsense
while the proper way to begin any "research", is to... ask an expert.

Nobody has ended up in a psych hold, just by reading a bunch of Wikipedia articles, asking ChatGPT... then consulting a doctor.