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AI Psychosis

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

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

Musk Watch

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

By Frank Landymore

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

“Absolutely hilarious.”

By Victor Tangermann

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

“Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Feed

Taikonauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei installed debris protection panels on China's Tiangong during an eight-hour spacewalk.

China Installs Defensive Countermeasures on Space Station

Sora users have been churning out edgy AI Disney and Pixar style trailers well before Disney signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI.

People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

NASA Rover Captures Electric Dust Devils Wandering the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their island habitat.

Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species

By Sharon Adarlo

Crypto casinos are luring in young users by paying streamers and celebrities millions of dollars to promote their sites.

Literal Teens Are Losing It All at Crypto Casinos

By Frank Landymore

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its environment.

Scientists Reveal Robot Small Enough to Travel Through Human Body

By Frank Landymore

Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.

Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic's chief scientist Jared Kaplan says humanity will soon have a big decision to make on whether to take the "ultimate risk" on AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All

By Frank Landymore

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.

Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space

By Victor Tangermann

The Washington Post's egregiously error-ridden AI podcasts are causing a meltdown inside the newspaper's newsroom.

Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post’s AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Archaeologists discovered an undersea wall that measures almost 400 feet in length, the biggest underwater construction ever found in France.

Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon's AI chatbot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Convention, even if Pete Hegseth doesn't.

Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal

A man who admitted to drinking eight energy drinks a day has lasting numbness throughout his body due to a stroke.

Man Suffers Grim Fate After Drinking Eight Energy Drinks Per Day

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.

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Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

OpenAI is making it hard for its researchers to publish research that tells the truth of AI's potentially negative economic impact.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

By Frank Landymore

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