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

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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

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: “cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

“My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

Confronted with cameras, a worker raged that “you’re fake news.”

A person died in a Tesla vehicle in Arizona Tuesday after the vehicle crashed and burst into hot flames which required hazmat control.

Driver Dies After Tesla Crashes and Bursts into Flames

They needed a hazmat crew to put out the flames.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "Grokipedia," found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.

Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times

“The guardrails are off.”

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

US standardized test scores have plunged to their lowest in decades, and the problem lies with screens, argues a psychologist.

Here’s an Interesting Theory About Why Kids’ Test Results Have Fallen to Their Lowest Point in Two Decades

By Frank Landymore

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

By Sharon Adarlo

A survey found that a shockingly large proportion of UK teens would rather talk to a chatbot than a person, and many are using AI for advice.

A Chilling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Altman's blockchain startup "Tools for Humanity" demands employees treat its surveillance orb project with a slavish devotion.

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

A simple trick involving poetry is enough to jailbreak the tech industry's leading AI models, researchers found.

Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.

Artificial Intelligence

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS”

By Frank Landymore

A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the use of AI in the industry by claiming that "Gen Z loves AI slop."

Gaming Exec Says That “Gen Z Loves AI Slop”

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.

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Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

Researchers discovered a disturbing trend among people who learned about a topic with ChatGPT, instead of using a regular web search.

Artificial Intelligence

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.

Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present

By Frank Landymore

Moss can survive several months exposed to the harsh environment of outer space, according to a new paper.

Scientists Intrigued by Moss Surviving on Exterior of Space Station

By Sharon Adarlo

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