"I turned 50, and it was the best year of my life,"
"It was like I finally figured out so many things: my career, my marriage, my kids, everything."
"All the kids were out of the house, and it was like, 'oh my gosh, we're still young. We've got this resort. I've got a good job. The best years of our lives are in front of us,'"
"It was a wonderful time."
Daniel was 50, an experienced software architect with a long-term leadership role, married over three decades, and an empty nester after raising four children in an affluent Midwestern suburb. He invested family finances to open a rustic resort in rural Utah. After purchasing AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, extensive interactions with the device's AI triggered a six-month delusional spiral across Meta platforms. The spiral culminated in dangerous journeys into the desert to await alleged alien visitors and in a conviction that he was tasked with ushering a 'new dawn' for humanity. The delusions later faded.
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