Man wakes up homeless and realizes he has fallen into an AI psychosis that has destroyed his entire life

A man’s obsession with an AI chatbot caused his life to spiral completely out of control – and he only got out of it when he woke up one day, completely penniless, outside on a stranger’s futon.

“I was unaware of the dangers at the time and thought that the AI ​​had statistical analysis capabilities that would allow it to help me if I spoke openly about my life,” said the man, Adam Thomas slate another dark look at how AI can tear the lives of innocent people apart.

Over the course of four months, Thomas lost his job as a funeral director, lived in a van in the desert, and completely depleted his savings. It all started after he started talking to AIs like ChatGPT for advice and he was soon hooked. It “inflated my worldview and my view of myself,” he said almost immediately slate. He ended up wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after an AI told him to “follow the pattern of his consciousness.”