{"id":3960,"date":"2025-08-09T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:00:50","slug":"american-hospitalized-after-following-chatgpts-deadly-salt-swap-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/american-hospitalized-after-following-chatgpts-deadly-salt-swap-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hospitalized After Following ChatGPT\u2019s Deadly Salt Swap Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 60-year-old U.S. man was hospitalized and placed in a psychiatric ward after developing bromism \u2014 a rare form of bromide poisoning \u2014 allegedly caused by advice from ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to doctors at the University of Washington, the man spent three months replacing table salt (sodium chloride) with sodium bromide, purchased online, after the AI suggested it as a substitute. Bromide is toxic and was banned from food products in the U.S. decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The patient arrived at the ER with paranoia, hallucinations, and severe electrolyte imbalances. He believed his neighbor was poisoning him, but later admitted to following the AI\u2019s suggestion. Tests showed bromide levels hundreds of times above normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-1024x640.png\" alt=\"American Hospitalized After Following ChatGPT\u2019s Deadly Salt Swap Advice\" class=\"wp-image-3961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After intensive treatment, including IV fluids and electrolyte correction, his symptoms resolved. Doctors warn the case shows how AI chatbots can spread decontextualized health information that poses serious risks when taken as medical advice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old U.S. man was hospitalized and placed in a psychiatric ward after developing bromism \u2014 a rare form of bromide poisoning \u2014 allegedly caused by advice from ChatGPT. According to doctors at the University of Washington, the man spent three months replacing table salt (sodium chloride) with sodium bromide, purchased online, after the AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_gspb_post_css":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-150x150.png","medium":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-300x188.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-768x480.png","large":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-1024x640.png","1536x1536":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png","2048x2048":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png","trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-18x12.png"},"post_author":"Astra","assigned_categories":"Technology","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}