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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

By Joe Wilkins
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FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps

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A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come

By Frank Landymore
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Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop

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Ethics

We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients

Why am I getting emails from fake PR reps with AI-generated faces?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Launches New Service Where You Can Send Him All Your Money and Hope for the Best

Not all at once!

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Is Having One of His All-Time Meltdowns

“They hate you far more than they hate me!”

By Frank Landymore

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SpaceX Stock Hammered After Starship Booster Fails in First Launch Since IPO

It’s not rocket science, it’s Wall Street.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly

By Victor Tangermann

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Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage

By Frank Landymore

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US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong

By Frank Landymore

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Wild Footage Shows Man Blocking Flock Camera With Comically Gigantic Protest Sign

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Almost the Entire Country Is Drowning in Cases of Explosive Diarrhea

By Victor Tangermann

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Shell Is Profiting Massively Off the War in Iran

By Victor Tangermann

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LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report “Seems Like AI Slop,” Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout

By Victor Tangermann

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NASA Mars Rover Discovers Field of Mesmerizing Polygons

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing

By Frank Landymore

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Schools Deploying Pepper Spray Drones to Sic on Mass Shooters

By Frank Landymore

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Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style

By Frank Landymore

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South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI Bubble

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Machine Learning

Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

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The United States Is Rapidly Running Out of Blood

By Victor Tangermann

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If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer

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