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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.

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xAI

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

The Feed

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Robotics

Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes

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Privacy

Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center

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Meta

Meta’s Program That Spies on Every Employee’s Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion

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Treatments

White House Pushes Back Against Claim That Trump Was Given Early Access to a Powerful Experimental Weight Loss Drug

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Quantum Computing

Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections

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The Industrialists

Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at OpenAI

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SpaceX

SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen Below Its Opening Price

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SpaceX

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing

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Artificial Intelligence

A24 Fans in Meltdown After It Enters AI Partnership With Google

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Climate Change

Illinois Is Getting Battered by Freak Tornadoes

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The Industrialists

Head of Microsoft Rages at His Fellow CEOs for Admitting What They’re Actually Doing to Society With AI

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SpaceX

SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the $150s

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Future Society

Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Beloved Grandmother Was Standing in Her Own House When a Tesla, Allegedly on Autopilot, Smashed Through the Wall and Killed Her in Grandchildren’s Playroom

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money

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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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