Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerSep 9, 2026, 7:00 am100 pts
It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In July, Lines sued OpenAI after weeks of ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him so deep into a delusional spiral that he first believed he was Jesus, then that…

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