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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

AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over

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xAI

Elon Musk’s xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes

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Machine Learning

A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry

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Future Society

SpaceX’s Shares Tank After Starship Fails to Launch

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Parasites

Let’s Be Real, The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is Trump’s Fault, Not Taco Bell’s

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Anthropic

Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

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xAI

Elon Musk’s AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes

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Finance

SoftBank CEO Says You’re Too Stupid to Understand What’s Going on If You Believe the AI Bubble Is Real

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Finance

In Case You Still Think Insider Trading on Prediction Markets Isn’t Real, Trump’s Teleprompter Guy Just Got Busted for Getting Rich on Betting What He Would Say

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Robotaxis Are Turning Passengers Into Horrible and Entitled Menaces to Society

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Privacy

Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

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Finance

Prices Already Spiking at Trump’s Mysterious Gas Stations That Promised Cheap Fuel

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Parasites

Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea

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Artificial Intelligence

Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming

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Ethics

OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets

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Ethics

Health Care Workers Furious as NYC Replaces Nurses With AI

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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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