ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says

The influence of chatbot words on the users they communicate with is a hot topic that is increasingly being discussed, generally in a negative light. Negative because artificial intelligence is unable to recognize and consider potential disturbances or anomalies in user behavior, thus fueling and supporting decisions and actions that are sometimes dangerous.

According to a recent indictment by the US Department of Justice, a stalker guilty of harassing 11 women turned to ChatGPT for advice, seeing it as a friend and therapist. The chatbot responded by advising him to go to more gyms to meet more women and to continue his actions despite the “haters.”

Brett Michael Dadig, a 31-year-old from Pittsburgh, reportedly hosted a podcast on Spotify dedicated to his hatred of women, accompanying it with various derogatory terms and references to his desire to strangle people with his bare hands.