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OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

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Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

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OpenAI

Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users’ lives.

The Feed

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Ethics

Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

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Pollution

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

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Ethics

Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks

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Google

Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI

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The Industrialists

The Amount of Profit Trump Is Making Off Crypto and Corruption Will Blow Your Mind

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Tesla

Tesla’s Semi Truck Involved In Horrific Crash That Killed Married Couple

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Future Society

Fans Furious as Netflix Uses AI to Bring Gene Wilder’s Voice Back From the Dead for Willy Wonka Reality Show

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Energy

County With 37 Data Centers Tells Schools to “Turn Off Your Lights” to Save Electricity Ahead of Scorching Heat Wave

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Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures

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Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

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SpaceX

The Problem With SpaceX’s Secret “AI Device”

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The Industrialists

“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview

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Climate Change

Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?

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Future Society

CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop

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Climate Change

Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
Ethics

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Artificial Intelligence

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

OpenAI

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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