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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code ...

In 2023, a man from Belgium also took his own life after an AI chatbot encouraged him to “sacrifice” himself to stop climate change. Even though AI chatbots are not real people, some ...