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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

“Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor.”

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AI Psychosis

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

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: “cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

Grok is a stalker’s best friend.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

“We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit.”

It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address

Grok is not beating the allegations.

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The Verge tested several AI browsers, finding them to be slow and janky . And we haven't even gotten into their major security risks.

AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly

By Frank Landymore

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

Google Discover is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles.

Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense

By Victor Tangermann

An anti-AI activist is on the run and hiding from police after he allegedly threatened to shoot and kill employees of OpenAI.

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous

By Sharon Adarlo

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

A YouTube channel called "Dr. Avi Loeb" is impersonating the Harvard astronomer by using AI tools to clone both his likeness and voice.

Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube

By Victor Tangermann

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

By Victor Tangermann

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, said the future of AI is like when UK farmers spread mad cow disease through tainted feed.

Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists are set to begin new trials testing the use of GLP-1 drugs similar to Ozempic and Wegovy in pets.

Scientists Testing GLP-1s for Overweight Dogs and Cats

By Frank Landymore

What was once a healthy lead over OpenAI's competition thanks to its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT has turned into a razor-thin edge.

OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

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Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

$IBM CEO Arvid Krishna said that the math of its AI competitors' spending doesn't add up, and won't return a profit.$

IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending

By Victor Tangermann

Meta executives are eying gigantic budget cuts for the teams responsible for its Meta Horizon Worlds and Quest VR headset.

Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse After Renaming Entire Company “Meta”

By Victor Tangermann

The group chat in question: the same one in which Pete Hegseth accidentally revealed secret military strikes to a journalist.

JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat

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