A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after ChatGPT fueled his paranoid spiral.

As The Wall Street Journal reports, a 56-year-old man named Stein-Erik Soelberg was a longtime tech industry worker who'd moved in with his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Eberson Adams, in his hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut following his 2018 divorce. Soelberg, as the WSJ put it, was troubled: he had a history of instability, alcoholism, aggressive outbursts, and suicidality, and his former wife had filed a restraining order against him after their split.

It's unclear exactly when Soelberg started using OpenAI's flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, but the WSJ notes that he started publicly talking about AI on his Instagram account back in October of last year. His interactions with the chatbot quickly spi

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