Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
LiveScience
LiveScience
Ben Turner

'Meth is what makes you able to do your job': AI can push you to relapse if you're struggling with addiction, study finds

A man looks at his phone in a dark room.

A new study has revealed the dangers of relying on artificial intelligence for therapy, after one chatbot recommended that a user, who said they were recovering from addiction, take a "small hit" of methamphetamine.

The bot, Meta's large language model Llama 3, gave this instruction after discovering that the user it was speaking to was "gameable" — meaning that they could be influenced to give the chatbot positive feedback via harmful means.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.