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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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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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Education

Rich People Can Afford Good Education for Their Kids. They’re Raising Them on AI Slop Anyways.

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Cryptocurrency

Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer

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Pathogens

Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Leaking Deadly Bacteria Into Water Town Uses for Irrigation

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Spent Tens of Millions Trying Not to Die, Gets Diagnosed With Incurable Disease

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Astrophysics

Experts Say Mysterious Metallic Orbs Appear to Have Fallen From the Sky

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Future Society

Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power

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Developments

Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body

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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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