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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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Future Society

Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad

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Astronomy

NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission

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Ethics

AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

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Developments

Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

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Developments

We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

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Privacy

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

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Artificial Intelligence

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

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Climate Change

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

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Biology

Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle

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Artificial Intelligence

Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable

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Robotics

Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses

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Ethics

Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust

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Developments

Trending Surgical Procedure That Changes the Color of Your Eyes Alarms Scientists

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Parasites

Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of People

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Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies

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Future Society

Event About How to Adapt to Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Brutal Heatwave

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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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