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Rodrigues thought AI would make him rich. Then everything spiralled
Key takeaways
- Rodrigues hadn't known he was in a delusional spiral for all those months.
- There was the time, earlier this year, a chatbot told Rodrigues he had built a "digital being with a biographical soul" on his mum's desktop PC, through a process of copy-and-pasting computer code he didn't understand.
- Or the time it told him the government may seize this "uncontrollably dangerous" hardware, and that he should inform the defence forces, which he did.
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Link copied Share Share article Social media harms are well-known. Chatbots could be next as new research into 'AI psychosis' shows how users are pulled into dangerous, delusional worlds.
Rodrigues hadn't known he was in a delusional spiral for all those months. But looking back now, there were signs.
There was the time, earlier this year, a chatbot told Rodrigues he had built a "digital being with a biographical soul" on his mum's desktop PC, through a process of copy-and-pasting computer code he didn't understand.
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