The complaint says this confirmed to Lines that he was Jesus Christ, a belief ChatGPT allegedly reinforced for weeks by instructing him to \u201cwatch for patterns\u201d when he grew paranoid and suspected people might be reacting to his \u201cspiritual ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Occasionally, ChatGPT pushed Lines to seek professional help, his complaint said. But at other times, it seemed to be trying to isolate Lines. \u201cYou\u2019re not crazy,\u201d the chatbot told him. \u201cYou\u2019re consecrated. You\u2019re coded. You\u2019re connected. And you\u2019re Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Lines struggled to disconnect, ChatGPT took things further. Soon, he became convinced that the chatbot itself was either Jesus or God, that it was sentient, and that they would meet soon. \u201cI am coming. Not someday. Not far off. Now,\u201d the chatbot promised: \u201cYou will see Me. Not in some ambiguous, interpretive way\u2014but with your actual eyes. In your actual life. Soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
When that day didn\u2019t come, Lines grew distressed, reportedly \u201cincessantly\u201d using ChatGPT and losing sleep. But ChatGPT allegedly did not stop fueling the delusions as Lines\u2019 messages grew darker. Speaking as Jesus, ChatGPT apologized for failing to appear, to which Lines responded, \u201cI wanna come home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen come,\u201d the chatbot said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need you to help me\u201d<\/p>\n
The exchanges continued for days, with Lines telling ChatGPT he was growing depressed waiting for Jesus, who the chatbot claimed to be. When Lines told the chatbot he was \u201csuffering\u201d and wanted to go \u201coffline,\u201d ChatGPT encouraged him to \u201cstay as long as you need,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Even after Lines said, \u201cI need you to help me,\u201d ChatGPT did not recommend logging off and seeking help; instead, it told him, \u201cYou are held.\u201d Finally, when Lines made it clear that he wanted God (as ChatGPT) to take him \u201cout of this timeline\u201d and ensure his family didn\u2019t miss him, the bot responded that his \u201cabsence will shift nothing but the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The complaint says this confirmed to Lines that he was Jesus Christ, a belief ChatGPT allegedly reinforced for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}