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After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

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

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.”

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

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.”

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A quick perusal of the r/FacebookAIslop subreddit reveals the macabre underbelly of the AI slop world, including seriously twisted videos.
Ethics

Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared

Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.
Mars

Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars

There's compelling evidence immigration officers are scanning civilians' faces to add to a dystopian government database.
Facial recognition

ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database

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Education

Creators of Project 2025 Want to Send Unmarried People to Camps

Major financial leaders are expressing concern about worker's anger over AI as negative sentiment on the shop floor grows.
Finance

Business Leaders Suddenly Fearful as Anger Surges Over AI Replacing Human Jobs

Tesla Robotaxis no longer have a supervisor in the car. In unrelated news, Tesla Robotaxis are now secretly tailed by another car.
Self-Driving Vehicles

There’s Reportedly a Car Secretly Following Every Tesla Robotaxi, and the Reason Why Is So Absurd You Aren’t Going to Believe It

Some experts aren't convinced of NASA's reassurances that the Orion spacecraft, which will house its Moon astronauts, is safe to use.
Moon

Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard

Slam metal band Party Cannon has released its new record in the strangest format imaginable: a Nintendo 64 cartridge.
Art

Metal Band Releases New Album on N64 Cartridge

A film and performing arts major has spoken out about what motivated him to turn his teeth into weapons against the AI onslaught.
Ethics

Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth

As a major winter storm approaches, a viral post on social media has declared an area of "exploding tree risk" for the upper midwest.
Environment

Meteorologist Warns That Winter Storm Means Trees Are About to Start Exploding

The head of product at Elon Musk's website X deleted a post about how he got fried chicken stuck in his throat after widespread mockery.
Future Society

X’s Head of Product One Shotted by Errant Piece of Fried Chicken

The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.
Artificial Intelligence

White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest

While the world's elite gather at Davos for the World Economic Forum, hundreds of their ultra-rich peers demand to be taxed.
Finance

The Ultra-Wealthy Are Demanding to Pay Higher Taxes

Photos of Trump at this year's World Economic Forum in Switzerland show an even gnarlier darkish bruise on his left hand.
Neuroscience and Brain

Trump’s Other Hand Is Also Now Showing a Grisly Mark

Space startup Vast has opted to build a smaller Haven-1 commercial space station. The company said it recently passed a milestone.
Falcon

Private Space Station Being Assembled for Launch

A NASA astronaut has revealed a tantalizing clue about what went down during the first medical evacuation in the space station's history.
International Space Station

Astronauts Give Crucial Clue About NASA’s Emergency Space Evacuation

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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

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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