{"id":268521,"date":"2026-02-05T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:33:16","slug":"consider-this-from-npr-npr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268521\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n People using AI chatbots can experience unhealthy emotional attachments or breaks with reality. Now a group of affected people is turning to each other for support.<\/p>\n

Tracy J. Lee for NPR<\/p>\n

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Tracy J. Lee for NPR<\/p>\n

Some people who say AI chatbots upended their lives and the lives of their loved ones, are now turning to each other for support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Around the world, people are talking to AI chatbots, and these chats can sometimes lead to unhealthy emotional attachments or even breaks with reality.<\/p>\n

OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, is facing several lawsuits alleging the chatbot contributed to mental health crises and even multiple suicides.<\/p>\n

An OpenAI spokesperson told NPR that they are \u201ccontinuing to improve\u201d ChatGPT\u2019s training to quote \u201crecognize and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate conversations, and guide people toward real-world support.\u201d<\/p>\n

For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0Email us at considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Audrey Nguyen and Karen Zamora.<\/p>\n

It was edited by Brett Neely and Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n

Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People using AI chatbots can experience unhealthy emotional attachments or breaks with reality. Now a group of affected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-268521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}