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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.”

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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.

The Feed

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Exoplanets

Astronomers Thrilled After Discovering Best Spot Yet to Look for Alien Life

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RX and Medicine

RFK Jr Wants to Waste $5 Billion in the Worst Way Imaginable

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Artificial Intelligence

“The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” Will Use AI to De-Age Actors

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Climate Change

As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods

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Boston Dynamics

Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots

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Facial recognition

Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

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Future Society

Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers

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The Industrialists

AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea

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Ethics

Data Centers Are Making Electricity Brutally Expensive for the Public

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Energy

Decrepit Oscar Mayer Hot Dog Factory Is Getting a Major Fusion Reactor Facelift

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Meta

Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice

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Developments

US Hospitals Are Outsourcing In-Person Nursing to Remote Health Workers in the Philippines

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Exobiology

You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space

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Climate Change

Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would’ve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring

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Robotics

Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off

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Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Expose How AI Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music

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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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