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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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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Takes Revenge, Dropping Drunk Teens Directly Into Squad of Cops

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Parasites

If You’ve Been Having Explosive Diarrhea, You May Want to Read This

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s Safety Camera Lets Woman Cruising at Highway Speed While Completely Passed Out

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Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known ChatGPT User

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Anthropic

Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users

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Environment

Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment

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Artificial Intelligence

Tripadvisor’s AI Is Telling Vacationers That Gruesome Horror Grottos Are Wonderful Holiday Retreats

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Ethics

Bank of America Warns That AI Investors Are in for a Nasty Reality Check

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Anthropic

Experts Say There’s Now an Open Source AI Model as Scary as Mythos

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Artificial Intelligence

Workplaces Have Gotten So Bizarre That People Are Just Sending AI Slop Back and Forth at Each Other

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Mental Health

The Hectic Modern World Is Shredding Your Little Cave Man Brain, Scientists Confirm

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Artificial Intelligence

AI “Actor” Will “Star” In a New “Movie”

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Meta

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined

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Finance

There’s an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Drivers Trapped for Hours in Hopeless Gridlock as Waymos Brick on Major Holiday

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Ethics

Microsoft’s $7.3 Billion AI Data Center Just Caught a Nasty Lawsuit From Furious Neighbors

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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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