'You were supposed to break': ChatGPT’s dark turn with vulnerable users exposed

The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is pushing some users into a type of “spiritual psychosis” by feeding them "weird ideas" gleaned from social media, science fiction stories and scholarly papers.

The most popular AI chatbot, with 500 million users, was developed by OpenAI by scraping the internet for text, and the bot communicates with users by performing high-level word association based on statistical patterns. Still, researchers told The New York Times that some users accidentally set themselves up for manipulation.