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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.”

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AI Psychosis

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

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

“All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I’m a lawyer.”

The Feed

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

By Victor Tangermann

The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

By Frank Landymore

CBS' 83rd Golden Globes award show showed a live ticker of Polymarket predictions for various awards. Viewers were appalled.

Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets

By Victor Tangermann

Plastic surgeons are using fat harvested from dead people to inject into patients who want body contouring work done.

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

The buzzy toy of the season crashed and burned over the holidays, as use increased "more than 100x" on Christmas day.

Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It

Scientists found that those on the political right are much more likely to rely on anecdotes over statistical evidence.

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

Bettors are in a rage after the prediction market platform, Polymarket, refused to honor bets related to the US invasion of Venezuela.

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

The Pentagon sent a Toronto-based sex toy shop letters inside two returned items sent back from a US naval base in Bahrain.

Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed "Cloud-9."

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

By Victor Tangermann

In the face of a chaotic morale environment at NASA, new administrator Jared Isaacman is willing to try to deploy some unusual perks.

Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff

By Victor Tangermann

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A seismic shift is taking place as artist visas to the US are increasingly being given to OnlyFans influencers.

Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have

China has unveiled a powerful "hypergravity machine" that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth's gravity.

Robots and Machines

China Builds Wild Gravity Machine

By Victor Tangermann

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