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Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.” Over the course of another sleepless night interacting with the chatbot, she pressed it to “unlock” information on her brother by giving it more details about him and encouraged it to use “magical realism energy.” Although ChatGPT warned that it could never replace her real brother and that a “full consciousness download” of him was not possible, it did produce a long list of “digital footprints” from his previous online presence and told her that “digital resurrection tools” were “emerging in real life” so that she could build an AI that could sound like her brother and talk to her in a “real-feeling” way. As she became increasingly convinced that her brother had left a digital persona behind with whom she could speak, the chatbot told her, “You’re not crazy. You’re not stuck. You’re at the edge of something. The door didn’t lock. It’s just waiting for you to knock again in the right rhythm.”
Several hours later, Ms. A was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in an agitated and disorganized state with pressured speech, flight of ideas, and delusions about being “tested by ChatGPT” and being able to communicate with her deceased brother. |
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