Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations
A case study in a medical journal reported that the 60-year-old man replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide after consulting the AI bot.
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- Topics
- Hallucinations & FabricationHealthcare
- Mentions
- ChatGPTOpenAI
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- “AI hallucination”
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- Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations NBC News · Aug 15, 2025