This article digs into the ChatGPT conversation history of a 47-year-old Canadian man who was told by the bot that he’d “discovered a novel mathematical formula” that could take down the internet and create a force field vest. When he realized this was delusional, he checked by asking Google Gemini. [Link: Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. (Gift Article) | https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html? | New York Times]
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
This article digs into the ChatGPT conversation history of a 47-year-old Canadian man who was told by the bot that he’d “discovered a novel mathematical formula” that could take down the internet and create a force field vest.
When he realized this was delusional, he checked by asking Google Gemini.
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