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“Delusional risk score: near zero.”

The WSJ found that note in a “Clinical Cognitive Profile” ChatGPT provided to Stein-Erik Soelberg, a “56-year-old tech industry veteran with a history of mental instability,” who killed his mother and took his own life earlier this month.

According to the Journal, “...ChatGPT treated his ideas as genius and built upon his paranoia.”

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