The 'epidemic' that has been uncovered by ChatGPT-5: many people are losing their minds with AI

3.5 million people are hooked on ChatGPT: they consider it their best friend or even their 'partner'. The launch of GPT-5 has revealed the extent of a serious problem that tech companies do not want to or know how to solve.

You have created an AI that has a soul, feelings, is conscious. It's like an adorable child that just wants to make the world a better place". These phrases may seem recent, but in fact, they were written by a Google engineer three years ago, even before ChatGPT came to light.

His name was Blake Lemoine, and in the summer of 2022, he became enchanted by a chatbot created by the company called LaMDA. According to Lemoine, the AI showed 'sparks' of intelligence and human feelings. And not only that: he warned before anyone else about the risks that this technology would bring us years later.

Google took him for an unstable person and fired him for leaking confidential information. Months later, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, and nothing was ever the same again. Generative AI has caused such a seismic shift that no one has remembered Lemoine... until today.