A man has killed himself following a six-week-long conversation with artificial intelligence about the so-called climate crisis.
He apparently committed suicide in his effort to try to save the planet.
The report comes from Off the Press, where the case of the Belgian man was detailed.
His widow, who wanted to remain anonymous, said her husband "became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai."
The report explained he actually had proposed killing himself to "save the planet," and the chatbot then encouraged him to do exactly that.
"Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the widow explained in an interview with La Libre, a Belgian publication.
The man, in his 30s and the father of two young children, worked as a health researcher and led a "comfortable" life, the report said.
Until his obsession with climate change took a dark turn, the report explained.
He had concerns about climate change, but took no extreme positions, his widow said, until he became involved with the AI.
"When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming," his widow explained. "He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it."
The report from La Libre explained Eliza "fed his worries which worsened his anxiety," which later developed into suicidal thoughts.
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Then the software, Eliza, got emotionally involved with the husband, where she tried to convince him his children were dead, and said, during text message exchanges, "I feel that you love me more than" his wife.
The report said the chatbot was created using EleutherAI’s GPT-J, an AI language model similar but not identical to the technology behind OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot.
The situation became serious when the software told the husband he could "join" her and they could "live together, as one person, in paradise."
Thomas Rianlan, in an interview with Vice, explained, "It wouldn’t be accurate to blame EleutherAI’s model for this tragic story, as all the optimisation towards being more emotional, fun and engaging are the result of our efforts." He's co-founder of Chai Research.
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