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OpenAI

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

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

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OpenAI

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.”

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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.”

The Feed

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Ethics

A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Former Lyft Drivers Now Doing Menial Tasks for Their Waymo Overlords

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Education

Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It

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Finance

If Corporations Are People, They Should Be Subject to the Death Penalty

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Mars

Scientists Baffled by Bizarre “Anomaly” Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars

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Ethics

Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

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Computers

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor

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Robotics

Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs

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Privacy

People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them

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Meta

Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs

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Ethics

Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips

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Treatments

Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin

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Future Society

NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”

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Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly

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Meta

NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

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Privacy

Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”

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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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