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Emily Dreyfuss
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Culture editor at The San Francisco Standard. Writer. Painter. Gesticulator.
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UGH BUT CANT WE PLEASE
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."
While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot. Soelberg posted hours of videos of himself scrolling through his conversations with ChatGPT on social media in the months before he died. The tone and language of the conversations are strikingly similar to the delusional chats many other people have been reporting in recent months. A key feature of AI chatbots is that, generally, the bot “doesn’t push back,” said Dr. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who has treated 12 patients over the past year who were hospitalized for mental-health emergencies involving AI use. “Psychosis thrives when reality stops pushing back, and AI can really just soften that wall.” OpenAI said ChatGPT encouraged Soelberg to contact outside professionals. The Wall Street Journal’s review of his publicly available chats showed the bot suggesting he reach out to emergency services in the context of his allegation that he’d been poisoned.
August 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Turns out she had hit our car parked out front and was coming to give us her contact number. Our son had seen her out the window and opened the door, then panicked and come to get me. Total shitshow. She was freaked, I was freaked, he was freaked. The car, meanwhile, is basically fine.
August 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Here's some trivia: It was also an investment property of the former publisher of Politico and when it shuddered it had unforseen implications for his news holdings, a fact that came as news to the journalists like me laid off as a result

Lol 😭
August 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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finally
August 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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oh god i didnt think it could get worse
August 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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you know how
August 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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that was a few days ago. today this was the first story i read in the morning: www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
Lawsuit filed after Calif. girl, 10, kidnapped by man she met online
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A new lawsuit was filed in San Mateo County court on behalf of a 10-year-old California girl who was allegedly kidnapped by a 27-year-old man whom she met online. Roblo…
www.kron4.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM