After developing an obsession with climate change, a Belgian man in his mid-30s decided that the solution lay in technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), and began to confide his fears to Eliza, an AI chatbot. Eliza is similar to the popular ChatGPT AI, but works through an app called Chai that uses the EleutherAI GPT-J AI language model. Over a six-week period the man’s obsession with talking to the AI about the climate crisis grew and.
