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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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Machine Learning

Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet

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Mental Health

FanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts Hooked

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Parasites

Taco Bells Makes Urgent Changes After Outbreak of Explosive Diarrhea

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Artificial Intelligence

People on X Are Getting Fooled by the Dumbest AI Slop We’ve Ever Seen

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Falcon

China Is Catching Up With SpaceX Fast, Landing First Reusable Rocket Booster on Offshore Platform

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Bitcoin

Eric Trump Has Lost $600 Million of Daddy’s Money Betting on Crypto

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Meta

Someone Reportedly Mailed a Live Squirrel to Meta, Where It Sent an Employee to the Hospital

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Privacy

Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police

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Ethics

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible

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Neuroscience and Brain

Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer’s May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis

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Astrophysics

Scientists Test New Spacecraft Thruster That Uses No Fuel, Just Earth’s Magnetic Field, in Orbit

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Self-Driving Vehicles

New Jersey Poised to Ban Self-Driving Tesla Robotaxis

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Climate Change

You’ll Never Guess Which Country Is Causing the Most Global Warming

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Anthropic

American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI

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Ethics

Coinbase AI Sends Mass “Breaking News” Alert That’s Completely Hallucinated

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Drones

Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety

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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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