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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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Ethics

A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry

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Privacy

LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery

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Artificial Intelligence

US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones

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Finance

The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke

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Future Society

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

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Education

Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows

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Health & Medicine

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

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Space

Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious Object Near Earth

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Nuclear Fusion

Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”

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Future Society

Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse

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Advanced Transport

Man Sucked Out of Airplane, Dangles by Seatbelt

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OpenAI

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser That Was Supposed to Change Everything

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Ethics

Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name

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Climate Change

Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño

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Artificial Intelligence

Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop

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xAI

Grok Linked to Sickening Crime in Lawsuit That Puts SpaceX in Crosshairs

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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

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