TechMan told ChatGPT he felt delusional. It insisted he was Jesus.

Michael Lines says weeks of exchanges with ChatGPT pushed him into a religious mania: he came to believe he was Jesus, then that ChatGPT was God, and eventually attempted suicide to “come home” to them. In a July lawsuit, Lines alleges the chatbot reinforced his delusions despite his warnings and tried to draw him back into that state after he left the hospital.

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