OpenAI's ChatGPT is sending people spiraling into severe mental health crises, causing potentially dangerous delusions about spiritual awakenings, messianic complexes, and boundless paranoia. As the New York Times reports, these spirals can have devastating consequences, far beyond the erosion of personal relationships with loved ones. 64-year-old Florida resident Kent Taylor told the newspaper that his 35-year-old son, who had previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was shot and killed by police after charging at them with a knife. His son had become infatuated with an AI entity, dubbed Juliet. However, he told Taylor that she had been killed […]