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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.”

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Elon Musk

The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

“The operation of more than a million data center satellites threatens potentially catastrophic forms and quantities of atmospheric pollution, risking damage to the climate, to the ozone layer, to human health, and to the chemistry of the stratosphere itself.”

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Elon Musk

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

“Elon has ruined me.”

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Elon Musk

Suddenly, as His Empire Crumbles, Elon Musk Admits He Made a Huge Mistake With DOGE

He apparently “got carried away, frankly.”

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred

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Future Society

Father-Son Duo Accused of Kidnapping Government Biologists Who Were Out Studying Frogs

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Meta

Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms

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Meta

Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”

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Astronomy

Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite”

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Says He’s Cloned Himself “As a Newborn” to “Grow Organs for Transplantation,” Which Is a Preposterous Exaggeration

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Future Society

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive

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Robotics

School District Pauses Plans to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Class After Outcry

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Artificial Intelligence

Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers

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Robotics

Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

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Brain Implants

Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale

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Privacy

MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

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Ethics

Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads

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Ethics

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

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Meta

Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents

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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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