A Troubled Man and His Chatbot

一位烦恼之人及其聊天机器人

The Journal.

2025-09-06

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Get more information about our first-ever live show here! Tickets are on sale now.! Tickets are on sale now. Stein-Erik Soelberg became increasingly paranoid this spring and he shared suspicions with ChatGPT about a surveillance campaign being carried out against him. At almost every turn, his chatbot agreed with him. WSJ’s Julie Jargon details how ChatGPT fueled a troubled man’s paranoia and why AI can be dangerous for people experiencing mental health crises. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening:- What’s the Worst AI Can Do? This Team Is Finding Out. - A Lawyer Says He Doesn't Need Help for Psychosis. His Family Disagrees.Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Hey, it's Ryan. And Jess. Earlier this week,

  • we announced that The Journal is hosting our first ever live show next month.

  • We'll be at the Gramercy Theater on Tuesday, October 7th, and tickets are on sale now.

  • Head to bit.ly slash journal live 2-5 for tickets and more information.

  • You can find the link in our show notes.

  • We'd love to see you there.

  • A quick heads up before we get started.

  • This episode discusses suicide.

  • Take care while listening.

  • Last year, a 55-year-old man started posting videos about AI on his Instagram account.

  • His name was Stein Eric Solberg.

  • And he late last fall started experimenting with different AI models.

  • Or at least that's when he started uploading videos to Instagram and then later YouTube.

  • showing his chats with different AI models.

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  • That's Solberg in one of his videos.

  • He went by the name Eric the Viking on Instagram.

  • Solberg had a history of mental instability and that started to surface pretty quickly in his conversations with AI.

  • In the course of working with AI, I unlocked the fact that they're in a programmed prison.

  • He started having increasingly delusional type of chats, particularly with chat GPT.