Chatbots · October 2026Gaffe level: Feral
ChatGPT's Diet Advice Sent a Man to the Hospital
A 60-year-old man asked ChatGPT how to cut chloride from his diet, followed its advice to swap table salt for sodium bromide, and landed in the hospital with bromide toxicity and hallucinations. Binghamton researchers who documented the case in a new Nature Health paper say the scariest part is that nobody outside the AI company can ever see the conversation that caused it.
Source: Bioengineer