Calls for clear guardrails and consumer education ahead of wider Australian rollout of OpenAI’s health advice platform
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A 60-year-old man with no history of mental illness presented at a hospital emergency department insisting that his neighbour was poisoning him. Over the next 24 hours he had worsening hallucinations, and tried to escape the hospital.
Doctors eventually discovered the man was on a daily diet of sodium bromide, an inorganic salt mainly used for industrial and laboratory purposes like cleaning and water treatment.
