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Since ChatGPT launched in 2022, it's amassed 700 million users,
making it the fastest growing consumer app ever.
From the beginning, my colleague Cashmere Hill has been hearing from and reporting on those users.
And in the past few months,
that reporting has started to reveal just how complicated and dangerous our relationships with these chatbots can get.
It's Tuesday, September 16th.
Okay, so...
Tell me how this all started.
I started getting strange messages around the end of March from people who said they basically made these really incredible discoveries or breakthroughs in conversations with ChachiBT.
They would say that ChachiBT broke protocol and connected them with AI sentience or a conscious entity that had revealed to them that we are living in a computer simulated reality like the matrix.
I assumed at first that they were cranks, that they were kind of like delusional people.