ChatGPT allegedly fueled the delusional conspiracies of a mentally unstable former Yahoo executive before he killed his elderly mom and then himself — marking what experts believe is the first documented murder linked to AI chatbot use.

Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, had confided his darkest suspicions to OpenAI’s popular bot, which he nicknamed “Bobby,” before the shocking murder-suicide that has rocked the ultra-wealthy town of Old Greenwich, Conn., according to the Wall Street Journal.

Soelberg had been living with 83-year-old Suzanne Eberson Adams, a former debutante, in her $2.7 million Dutch colonial home when the two were found dead on Aug. 5, police said. 6

In the months before he snapped, Soelberg posted hours of videos showing his ChatGPT conversations on Instagram and You

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