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

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.”

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

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

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

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.”

The Feed

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter.
Ethics

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”

Police are hunting about 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining operations in Malaysia, which they say have stolen around $1.1 billion in electricity.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.
Biology

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

A new $7 million startup called Autolane is revolutionizing the way self-driving cars navigate the fast food drive thru.
Future Society

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

The Verge tested several AI browsers, finding them to be slow and janky . And we haven't even gotten into their major security risks.
Future Society

AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.
Future Society

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.
Ethics

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop

Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.
Ethics

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

Google Discover is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles.
Google

Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense

An anti-AI activist is on the run and hiding from police after he allegedly threatened to shoot and kill employees of OpenAI.
Anthropic

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.
Ethics

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

A YouTube channel called "Dr. Avi Loeb" is impersonating the Harvard astronomer by using AI tools to clone both his likeness and voice.
Ethics

Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
Data Privacy

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, said the future of AI is like when UK farmers spread mad cow disease through tainted feed.
Future Society

Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease

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