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AI Psychosis

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested Tesla is ready to move on from the EV and is looking to capitalize on the next big hype cycle.

Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars

“Probably true.”

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

“She lives in fear that nude and sexual images of herself, including of her as a child.”

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

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By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A novel new technique has allowed scientists to see what's lurking miles beneath Antarctica's ice like never before.

Scientists Uncover Secret Landscape Hiding Miles Below Antarctica’s Ice

By Frank Landymore

A man who goes by the username "biz_dave" says he successfully trained crows to attack MAGA hats by hiding treats underneath them.

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

By Victor Tangermann

AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst

By Frank Landymore

A Denver Broncos beat writer was confused when a popular Facebook page claimed he had passed away due to a "domestic violence incident."

Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead

A new survey shows that media executives are all feeling pretty glum about how AI will affect journalism and news.

Artificial Intelligence

Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry

By Frank Landymore

A man paid about $2,500 for a whole body MRI scan that came up healthy, but he then suffered a massive stroke less than a year later.

Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News

By Sharon Adarlo

The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

By Victor Tangermann

New York-based labor rights group China Labor accused Labubus toys maker, Pop Mart, of labor rights violations.

The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

By Victor Tangermann

Ask Google's infamously hallucination-prone AI Overview feature what next year is, and you'll get an extremely puzzling answer.

Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

By Victor Tangermann

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

By Sharon Adarlo

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

By Frank Landymore

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