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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is shown in a light blue shirt and matching tie, holding a smartphone in his right hand and adjusting his jacket with his left hand.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A stylized portrait of Elon Musk wearing a black cap with the word "DOGE" embroidered on it.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A faceless person in a black suit and tie is sitting behind a white laptop with a large yellow Bitcoin symbol on it, set against an orange background with a grid pattern.
Ethics

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman in academic regalia, including a black gown and cap, is speaking at a podium. She is smiling and raising her left hand. To the right, a crowd of graduates in black caps and gowns are jeering.
Artificial Intelligence

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Art

James Cameron Accused of Stealing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Face for Main Character of Billion-Dollar “Avatar” Films

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man wearing a white polo shirt and light-colored pants is sitting in a dark environment, illuminated by the light from a smartphone he is holding. The lighting casts a blueish hue on his face and shirt, with a red light highlighting part of his pants and the background. He has a mustache and short hair, and appears focused on the phone screen.
Anthropic

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Cryptocurrency

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

New York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: “Our Piece Should Have Included That Information”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, and Other Glaring Red Flags?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Family of the victims speak to press after hearing the verdict outside the Los Angeles Superior Court during one of the coordinated lawsuits alleging that Meta and YouTube are designed to hook young users and cause them a variety of negative mental health effects, including strangling themselves and developing eating disorders, on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA.
Ethics

Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are shown in a distorted digital style.
Ethics

Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Still Hasn’t Fixed Its School Shooter Problem We Identified in 2024

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bearded man with short hair and round glasses is sitting on a couch, resting his head on his hand with a thoughtful or bored expression. He is holding a smartphone in his other hand. The image has a stylized overlay with an orange background, white geometric lines, and a blue circle behind the man's head.
Ethics

Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A smartphone screen displaying an announcement for GPT-4o dated May 13, 2024, describing it as a new flagship model capable of reasoning across audio, vision, and text in real time. The background features blurred neon lights in pink, blue, and purple hues.
OpenAI

As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, an especially sycophantic version of its chatbot linked in lawsuits to multiple deaths, next month.
Ethics

Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.
Artificial Intelligence

White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."
Ethics

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.
Ethics

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?
Ethics

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
Ethics

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The market incentives at play in the AI industry are creating a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis over chatbots, physicians warn.
Ethics

Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A large number of very young users are engaging with violent — and often sexually violent — interactions with unregulated companion chatbots.
Ethics

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

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.
Ethics

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.
Ethics

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
Ethics

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A survey found that a shockingly large proportion of UK teens would rather talk to a chatbot than a person, and many are using AI for advice.
Future Society

A Startling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.
Ethics

Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles

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.
Ethics

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The embattled chatbot company Character.AI is banning minors from its platform. Unsurprisingly, the site's users have a lot of thoughts.
Ethics

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bipartisan bill wants to keep kids under 18 away from AI companion bots, seeking penalties for AI companies that don't comply.
Ethics

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot maker Character.AI, accused of driving teens to suicide, says it will move to largely ban minors from talking with its chatbots.
Ethics

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.
Ethics

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.
Ethics

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.
Ethics

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would've required AI companies to prevent minors from engaging with dangerous AI content.
Ethics

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Kids From Predatory AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.
Artificial Intelligence

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.
Elon Musk

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Ethics

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parents of children who died by suicide after chatbot use will be testifying in the Senate during a hearing about AI chatbot risks.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.
Artificial Intelligence

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré