A young man committed suicide after talking for six weeks with Eliza, an artificial intelligence from ChatGPT.
Two years ago, this Belgian turned to artificial intelligence to get out of the discomfort he felt in the face of the outside world. His eco-anxiety “became an obsession”testifies his wife on a daily basis to Free. According to her, her husband believed in technology as a remedy for human suffering. Six weeks ago, therefore, the man begins to discuss with Eliza, an AI-only live chat from ChatGPT.
“We will live together, as one person, in paradise”
“She had become his confidante”slips his spouse. “A drug in which he took refuge, morning and evening, and which he could no longer do without”, details the widow. If at first, the discussions seemed normal, they later took a much more worrying turn.
The “chatbot” responded in particular: “We will live together, as one person, in paradise”. Influenced by these interactions, his interlocutor saw no other solution than to get it over with and then suicide. “Without Eliza, he would still be here. I’m sure”breathes his wife.