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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.”

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Mental Health

Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

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Pollution

New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water

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Drones

Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night

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Mental Health

Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams

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Astrophysics

Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence

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Climate Change

Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News

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Robotics

Airbnb Host Furious After Startup Trashes His Unit to “Test Robots”

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Energy

Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry

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Future Society

Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons

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Meta

Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

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Astronomy

NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

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Robotics

Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail

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Machine Learning

Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of Analyzing Sports, and They Choked Spectacularly

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Mental Health

It Turns Out Lookmaxxing Has Some Extremely Emasculating Side Effects

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Lads Force Waymo to Play Football

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Ethics

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

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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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