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Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating

By Joe Wilkins
Machine Learning

Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find

By Joe Wilkins
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor

By Krystle Vermes
Hacking

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

By Joe Wilkins
Machine Learning

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People

“It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity.”

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AI Psychosis

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows

“Musk loves to be glazed, and this person is the doughnut factory.”

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him

And he’s gone.

By Frank Landymore

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Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

“MEMES ON HIS PHONE.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

By Krystle Vermes

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Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet

By Krystle Vermes

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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

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These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome

By Jon Christian

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Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix

By Frank Landymore

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Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies

By Krystle Vermes

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Scientists Scan Gruesome Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast, Find Something Bizarre

By Krystle Vermes

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Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Electric Vehicles

Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool

By Jon Christian

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AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair

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Science & Energy

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

By Frank Landymore

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If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

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Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad

By Krystle Vermes

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OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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