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A man took ChatGPT's recommendation for a salt substitute. He ended up in the hospital

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Here's another reason not to trust everything AI tells you: When a 60-year-old man with high blood pressure asked ChatGPT for a good replacement for table salt, he ended up in the hospital. The chatbot told him to use sodium bromide instead. That’s not a salt substitute; it’s used as a cleaner. He didn’t know better and believed what the AI told him, until he started experiencing psychological issues and was in the bathroom all the time. This case is the subject of an entry in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Here's another reason not to trust everything AI tells you: When a 60-year-old man with high blood pressure asked ChatGPT for a good replacement for table salt, he ended up in the hospital. The chatbot told him to use sodium bromide instead. That’s not a salt substitute; it’s used as a cleaner. He didn’t know better and believed what the AI told him, until he started experiencing psychological issues and was in the bathroom all the time. This case is the subject of an entry in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
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