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AI Psychosis

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

Good.

By Frank Landymore

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

We’re following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that’s being generated via Musk’s own chatbot, Grok.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A new law passed in the Senate would allow victims to sue people who use AI models like Grok to generate sexually explicit images of them.

New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station has gone from seven crew members down to a "skeleton crew" of three due to a recent medical evacuation.

International Space Station

Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation

By Victor Tangermann

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison named his 191-foot superyacht "Izanami," only to change his mind after finding out what it spelled backwards.

Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards

By Victor Tangermann

The internet search giant recently announced new ad spots companies can buy to bombard users with links to sponsored products.

Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products

The music distribution platform Bandcamp said it would ban all music that is wholly or significantly made with AI.

Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

By Frank Landymore

After confiscating the phone of a 16-year-old boy, it appears that ICE agents then pawned it off to make a few bucks.

ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash

By Frank Landymore

Pete Hegseth has chosen to plug Grok into the Pentagon's classified military networks as part of a broader AI push.

Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks

The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform Stack Overflow.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

By Victor Tangermann

In a new essay, financial expert Sebastian Mallaby predicts that OpenAI could run out of money "over the next 18 months."

Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a passenger ditching his Waymo robotaxi as it drives dangerously close to an oncoming railcar.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train

By Frank Landymore

An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.

Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

By Sharon Adarlo

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

By Frank Landymore

The moguls behind the biggest AI corporations have no unified idea about the world after AI takes everybody's jobs.

Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Robovans are flooding roads in Chinese cities, a deployment leading to some unintentionally hilarious results.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto

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