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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

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

“She lives in fear that nude and sexual images of herself, including of her as a child.”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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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

The Feed

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

By Victor Tangermann

New York-based labor rights group China Labor accused Labubus toys maker, Pop Mart, of labor rights violations.

The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

By Victor Tangermann

Ask Google's infamously hallucination-prone AI Overview feature what next year is, and you'll get an extremely puzzling answer.

Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

By Victor Tangermann

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

By Sharon Adarlo

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

By Frank Landymore

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

By Victor Tangermann

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

By Sharon Adarlo

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