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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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-fueled mental health crises are harming individuals and families around the world. Some of those impacted are helping each other cope.
Artificial Intelligence

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.
OpenAI

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
Artificial Intelligence

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adrian Thiessen had a vitamin-sized capsule camera trapped in his intestines for over six months. He says it saved his life.
Prosthetics and Devices

Meet the Man Who Got a High-Tech PillCam Stuck Inside His Intestines for Six Months — and Says It Saved His Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?
Google

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to the bright engineering minds who brought a vape-connected "Tamagotchi" — which dies if you don't inhale — to life.
Prosthetics and Devices

We Talked to the Inventors of the “Tamagotchi” Vape That Dies If You Stop Puffing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

google-ai-fake-spacecraft
Google

An AI Slop “Science” Site Has Been Beating Real Publications in Google Results by Publishing Fake Images of SpaceX Rockets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pinterest is drowning in a torrent of slick-looking AI slop. Users are frustrated — while SEO spammers fueling the problem are celebrating.
Artificial Intelligence

Pinterest Is Being Strangled by AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.
Google

Google-Backed AI Startup Tested Dangerous Chatbots on Children, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Artificial Intelligence

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré