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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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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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Robotics

Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Caught Driving Straight Into Oncoming Traffic

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International Space Station

Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words

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Future Society

Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research Suggests

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Future Society

Light Pollution is Causing Fish to Live Miserable, Bitter Lives, Researchers Find

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Machine Learning

AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them

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Self-Driving Vehicles

You Will Never Guess What Teens Are Doing in Waymos

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Ethics

Deranged Stalker Uses AI to Edit Her Imaginary Baby Into Man’s Photos

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Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For

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Future Society

Airplane Crashes Into Skyscraper in China

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Artificial Intelligence

Ford Scrambled to Rehire Engineers After Sabotaging Itself With AI

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Ethics

Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave

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Starship

NASA Has a Major Problem Threatening Its Entire Moon Plans

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Climate Change

France Already Demolishing Record Summer Temperatures Predicted for 2050

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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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