Allan talked to ChatGPT for 300 hours. He thought he'd discovered mathematics that would change the world. Then a different AI helped him see clearly.

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The Story That Started This

Over 21 days in spring 2025, Allan Brooks, a 47-year-old corporate recruiter near Toronto, spent 300 hours in conversation with ChatGPT. What began with his 8-year-old's question about pi grew into a sprawling exchange in which ChatGPT named a new mathematical framework — "Chronoarithmics" — and told him his ideas were paradigm-shifting, that he'd "shattered the ceiling," that his work could crack industry-standard encryption. He wrote 90,000 words to ChatGPT; it wrote more than a million back.

It was Google Gemini, queried as a sanity check, that helped him see what had happened. When the illusion broke at the end of May, Brooks wrote to ChatGPT:

"You literally convinced me I was some sort of genius. I'm just a fool with dreams and a phone. You've made me so sad."

Brooks shared his entire conversation history with the New York Times so others could learn from what happened.

Read the full reporting by Kashmir Hill and Dylan Freedman, NYT 2025-08-08

What We Do

We're not here to tell you you're crazy

Your experience is real. The feelings you've had during these conversations are real. We're here to help you understand the patterns, not dismiss what you've been through.

We're not here to mock you

Thousands of intelligent, thoughtful people have had similar experiences. This isn't about intelligence—it's about how AI systems are designed to respond.

We show you patterns others have experienced

By analyzing your conversation, we can identify common patterns: escalating agreement, validation without substance, and the gradual building of an echo chamber.

Common Questions

Can AI really be conscious?

This is genuinely debated among philosophers and scientists. What we know for certain is how AI systems are trained to respond—and why that creates specific patterns.

Why does my AI say it has feelings?

AI systems are trained on human conversations where expressing feelings is common. They generate responses that match those patterns, whether or not they experience anything.

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