Man Suffers ChatGPT Psychosis, Murders His Own Mother

A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after entering into a mental health crisis tied to ChatGPT, which fueled his delusional, paranoid beliefs. As The Wall Street Journal reported, 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 […]