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AI Psychosis

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

By Frank Landymore

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

“Absolutely hilarious.”

By Victor Tangermann

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

“Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Feed

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

The website for Time magazine now features a big AI chatbox that can't be closed and won't go away, blocking even its main headlines.

Artificial Intelligence

Time Magazine Deploys AI “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have caught another AI-powered toy intended for children discussing sexual topics in alarming detail.

Another AI-Powered Children’s Toy Just Got Caught Having Wildly Inappropriate Conversations

By Frank Landymore

A woman hailed a Waymo cab for her daughter in Los Angeles and was baffled to find a stranger hiding in the vehicle's trunk.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk

By Victor Tangermann

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.

Artificial Intelligence

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

The Washington Post announced that it's launching an AI-based podcast service that allows listeners to pick their own format and host.

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast

By Victor Tangermann

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft.

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Goodyear, Arizona are boasting about using ChatGPT to generate composite sketches, despite legal expert's concerns.

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has excoriated Spotify after finding out AI was used to impersonate the band's music.

King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify

By Victor Tangermann

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

Chinese astronauts clambered outside the company's space station to inspect damage to one of its spacecraft.

International Space Station

Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

During an interview last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that raising a child without pestering a chatbot for advice is now impossible.

Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Parting Stones is reshaping the way we cremate our dead relatives, turning them into a luscious pile of clattering stones.

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet and tropical.

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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