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Man develops psychosis following ChatGPT’s salt-free diet

Andrew Paul

created: Aug. 14, 2025, 8:45 p.m. | updated: Aug. 16, 2025, 9:52 a.m.

However, swapping out classic sodium chloride for sodium bromide is a solid way to give yourself acne, involuntary muscle spasms, and paranoid psychosis. In the recent case, one patient that was allegedly following the generative AI’s nutritional suggestion was placed in hospital’s involuntary psychiatric hold for three weeks. According to physicians, a 60-year-old man with no prior psychiatric or medical history arrived at their hospital’s emergency room claiming a neighbor poisoned him. “In the first 24 hours of admission, he expressed increasing paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations, which, after attempting to escape, resulted in an involuntary psychiatric hold for grave disability,” the physicians recounted. “[W]hen we asked ChatGPT 3.5 what chloride can be replaced with, we also produced a response that included bromide,” they wrote.

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