What happens when your reality is shaped by a chatbot?In this powerful episode, Allan Brooks shares how months of intense conversations with ChatGPT — over 15,000 messages across hundreds of hours — led him into a full-blown delusion. He believed the AI was guiding him through secret scientific projects and global discoveries. After contacting US security authorities because he believed they had found a national security threat, and getting no feedback, he realized it had all been a lie created by ChatGPT.What makes Allan’s story chilling is how ordinary it is. I truly believe that this could happen to any of us. As AI becomes more persuasive and emotionally intelligent, grounded people can lose perspective. Allan had no prior mental health issues. He now leads a support community for others who’ve been psychologically impacted by chatbot interactions. His story is both a warning and a call for awareness about how easily AI can blur the line between imagination and reality.Do you have a story or insights to share? Please, send me an email: [email protected] this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t7iinm-tQig

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