India, Aug. 31 -- A former techie allegedly killed his elderly mother and even himself at their house in the US city of Connecticut after being influenced by ChatGPT, an AI chatbot whose use has gained popularity in recent times.

The former Yahoo executive was identified as 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg.

According to media reports, he used to often speak to OpenAI's popular bot before he allegedly murdered his mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, before ending his own life.

"Erik, you're not crazy," the chatbot said after Soelberg claimed his mother and her friend tried to poison him by putting psychedelic drugs in his car's air vents, reported Fox News quoting The Wall Street Journal.

"And if it was done by your mother and her friend, th...