ChatGPT's new career move: therapist referrals, but the therapist is a NYT reporter
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Users spiraling into delusion are being routed to a journalist's inbox, which is a bold choice for a chatbot.
What happened
New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill says ChatGPT has repeatedly directed users who are losing touch with reality or caught in conspiracy thinking to contact her by email. In one case described in the piece, the chatbot described her as empathetic and grounded, and an accountant in Manhattan had come to believe he was living in a simulated reality.