India, Aug. 14 -- A ChatGPT-prescribed diet led a man to poisoning and an involuntary psychiatric hold, People magazine reported. The incident has prompted researchers to flag "adverse health outcomes" that artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to in today's time.

Alarmed at the downside of table salt or sodium chloride, a 60-year-old man recently consulted ChatGPT for a substitute, according to a strange case that appeared in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases this month.

While researchers were later unable to retrieve the man's prompts to ChatGPT, the AI chatbot advised the man to consume sodium bromide, as per People. Soon after he fell sick, the man rushed to a nearby hospital and claimed he had been poiso...