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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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The doctor's harrowing account details how the Border Patrol agents allegedly did nothing to try Alex Pretti's life as he bled out.
Medical

Doctor Says What Border Patrol Agents Did After Shooting Alex Pretti Was Sickening

A solar storm could wreck havoc on our satellites and send them all crashing into each other, creating an unstoppable debris storm.
Space

Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn

In a recently published interview with New York Magazine, president Donald Trump struggled to recall the name of Alzheimer's disease
Treatments

Trump Forgets the Word for “Alzheimer’s” While Insisting His Memory Is Fine

New experiments purportedly add more credence to the idea that a 2,000 artifact is actually a battery, though some experts remain skeptical.
Future Society

Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery

The Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia has been battling with record amounts of snow this winter, burying an entire city.
Environment

Entire City Buried by Epic Snow

Generative AI may already be inducing a state of "cultural stagnation," leading to a convergence of generic ideas, a new study has shown.
Ethics

AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find

Meta quietly announced that it will cut off teen users' access to its AI character — if only for the time being.
Future Society

Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI

A paper claims to mathematically prove that AI agents have a hard ceiling to their capabilities that they will never surpass.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds

Researchers have found that it doesn't matter how frequently one watches porn; the reasons why is far more predictive of their sexual health.
Mental Health

Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning

Job seekers are suing a company for subjecting them to the whims of a bizarre algorithm in order to advance in the job market.
Ethics

Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI

A team of researchers say that a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived 400 million year ago is like no type of creature ever found.
Biology

Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

The financial logic of America's media ecosystem has created an environment of fear, which has taken the place of rational discussion.
Education

When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People

A mushroom, called Lanmaoa asiatica, can cause you to see countless tiny people everywhere you look when not prepared correctly.
Fungi

Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface

Something weird is happening with the official ManyVids accounts, and that something appears to be a case of AI psychosis.
Ethics

OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents

Teachers in a new school readiness survey that an alarming proportion of children starting school have no idea how to use a book.
Future Society

Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones

Waymo is facing additional heat from federal regulators over its robotaxis failing to stop for school buses.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse

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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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