Tim Stenovec

Rachel, this is a really powerful piece, a really scary piece for, I think, a lot of people.

You and the team spoke to 18 different individuals who've either experienced illusions themselves or have a loved one who has.

What did you find?

And it just was really shocking to us how many different types of people had been dealing with this experience.

How do the LLMs, how do these chatbots draw people in and keep them there?

And just in the last 30 seconds that we have with you, the companies, their response, how have they responded to this reporting?

That's Rachel Metz, who, along with Ellen Hewitt, reported on these delusions for Bloomberg Businessweek.

It was a recent big take.

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