• johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    I’m pretty sure I already saw an article where a guy replaced his table salt with some other form of sodium because chat gpt suggested it. He ended up giving himself a disease that’s been mostly eradicated in the modern day.

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      17 days ago

      A poisoning that’s rarely seen anymore but used to be more common. The heaps of data on bromism over the decades must not have made it into the training data.

    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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      17 days ago

      Yup, he was eating sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride. Any significant amount of bromide is not good for ya.