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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts, because this is the internet, and that's how it works now. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm Noah, and I'm going to be calling together this meeting of the super friends, but you can't be a lone super friend. |
| 0:34.9 | So joining me tonight is the man who puts the soup in Superman and the man who puts the narrow and green arrow, Cecil and Heath. |
| 0:41.4 | I have had my physique compared to a bag of soup many times. |
| 0:44.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm the, I don't know, archery guy? |
| 0:49.0 | No. |
| 0:51.2 | And also joining us tonight, two Wonder Twins that would not be trusted with their own monkey, |
| 0:56.4 | Eli and Tom. Me and Zing Zing would have the best time. You don't even know, Noah. You don't even |
| 1:02.0 | know. Maybe those monkeys shouldn't have been so delicious, Noah. Yeah, no. Now people put the blame there. |
| 1:09.2 | But of course, the real heroes on this show are our patrons. |
| 1:13.4 | So if you'd like to learn how to be a real super friend, stick around to the end of the show. |
| 1:16.6 | And with that out of the way, tell us Heath, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event? |
| 1:20.7 | Are we going to be talking about today? |
| 1:22.9 | Chat, GBT, GBT, convinced the guy he's a superhero. |
| 1:27.1 | Okay, so what is that? |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | Some guy named fucking Alan started talking with chat GPT about math and eventually became convinced |
| 1:38.5 | that he invented a new math that unravels the fabric of the universe. |
| 1:45.4 | That math was going to upend the entire cryptography space and lead to the invention of |
| 1:51.3 | Tony Stark technology that could make the guy into basically Iron Man. |
| 1:56.7 | Turns out that was incorrect. |
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