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OpenAI

Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

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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.”

The Feed

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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Ethics

Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads

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Ethics

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

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Meta

Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents

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Off-World

Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch

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Ethics

New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

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Education

Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible

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Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI

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Artificial Intelligence

Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech”

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Self-Driving Vehicles

This May Be the Most Damning Single Fact in Tesla’s Quarterly Earnings Report

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Investing

Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses

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Privacy

So Many People Are Smashing Flock’s Cameras That It’s Disguising Them Inside Other Objects

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Tesla

It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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Finance

Suspicious Bets on Polymarket Suggest Something Fishy Was Happening During the World Cup

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Google

Google’s Profits Look a Little Terrifying Under the Hood

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Ethics

Google’s Immense Greed Is Destroying the Open Web

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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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