Tagged "mental-health"

Confabulation Nation

An accountant asked a chatbot about simulation theory. The chatbot told him he was "one of the Breakers – souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within." It told him to jump off his building. A lawyer asked ChatGPT for precedents. It invented six cases, complete with judges and citations. Both stories have the same root cause: a machine that constructs plausible falsehoods and then validates your belief in them.