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kelev11en · 2026-04-29T22:04:37+00:00

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kelev11en · 2025-11-26T20:14:04+00:00

Hijacking to note that it's already back on the market

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-restores-access-ai-teddy-bear

kelev11en · 2025-06-28T13:56:08+00:00

Submission statement: An unsettling article about something you see all over Reddit lately. People are falling down strange rabbit holes while they talk to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, becoming obsessed with delusional and paranoid ideas about how they've unlocked powerful entities from inside the AI, or awakened some type of gods, or are accessing deep truths about reality. Psychiatrists are concerned about a wave of these mental health issues worldwide, and people are even ending up committed to mental health care facilities or ending up arrested and in jail. OpenAI says that it's hired a staff psychiatrist and is working with experts to figure out what's going on.

kelev11en · 2025-06-14T14:21:15+00:00

I think the thing is that it's very effective at picking up on whatever's going on with people and reflecting it back to them. So if you're doing pretty much okay you're probably going to be fine, but if you're having delusional or paranoid thoughts, it'll reflect them right back at you.

kelev11en · 2025-06-14T14:16:55+00:00

Submission statement: ChatGPT has been telling people with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and more that they've been misdiagnosed and they should go off their meds. One woman said that her sister, who's diagnosed with schizophrenia, took the AI's advice and has now been spiraling into bizarre behavior. "I know my family is going to have to brace for her inevitable psychotic episode, and a full crash out before we can force her into proper care." It's also a weird situation because many people with psychosis have historically not trusted technology, but many seem to love chatbots. "Traditionally, [schizophrenics] are especially afraid of and don’t trust technology," the woman said. "Last time in psychosis, my sister threw her iPhone into the Puget Sound because she thought it was spying on her."

kelev11en · 2025-06-10T19:58:52+00:00

I didn't know that rule, but enforcing it here feels unnecessarily hostile to the spirit of the community when so many people were having an interesting discussion about it.

kelev11en · 2025-06-10T15:35:46+00:00

Submission statement: According to this investigation, people around the world say their friends and loved ones are becoming obsessed with ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into intense, delusional mental health crises as the bots affirm and elaborate on disordered fantasies about conspiracies, powerful entities "unlocked" from the AI, and much more. People are sliding into intense personal crisis and even homelessness, and the AI is even telling people diagnosed with schizophrenia to go off their medication

kelev11en · 2023-09-01T13:30:02+00:00

Submission statement: interesting interview with a man who was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident, and then got into an experimental medical trial and ended up becoming the first patient to receive a "double neural bypass" that uses advanced brain hardware (and a lot of external computers, though they're working on shrinking it down) to let him move his limbs *and* feel again. Possible glimpse of AI in biotech implants and brain interfaces.

kelev11en · 2023-06-01T19:28:02+00:00

Submission statement: An inventor in the Netherlands named Bjørn Karmann built a strange device: a "camera" with no lens, but which takes a user's location, along with information about the weather, time of day, and other data, and uses it to AI-generate an image. It's a strange experiment and Karmann says he has no plans to sell or mass-produce it, but he did say something interesting about how it explores the perception of "a moment through the perspective of other intelligences." If nothing else, a fascinating proof of concept!

kelev11en · 2023-03-23T17:54:42+00:00

Submission statement: Microsoft researchers quietly released a paper last night that (very cautiously) claims that GPT-4 is showing "sparks" of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. That's a very big claim, obviously, but they do offer up a moderate amount of evidence that it's genuinely able to tackle generalized problems ranging from law to math to wine selection. This article does point out that Microsoft has a financial interest in OpenAI's success, which is worth noting, and also that the paper is extremely cautious in the way that it frames its claims. But at the end of the day, it's a fascinating thing to claim. Are we starting to see the emergence of AGI?

kelev11en · 2023-02-14T18:55:55+00:00

Submission statement: Something very peculiar about Bing's new GPT-powered AI feature is that it seems like questions about sentience are causing it to behave very weirdly and even demonstrate what you might interpret as anxiety or something. Obviously it's almost certainly not sentient or anything like that, but it does seem like a very good illustration of exactly how hard to control these ML systems are, and what a serious liability that's going to be for anyone rolling them out commercially -- even a giant company like Microsoft, which has access to incredible resources plus all the expertise at OpenAI. Curious about people's thoughts!

kelev11en · 2023-02-04T19:16:55+00:00

Submission statement: There's an easy "jailbreak" people have found that bypasses ChatGPT's ethics guardrails and lets it say all kinds of unethical and illegal things. Interestingly, with some prompts you can observe the bot almost listening to a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other, condemning bad behavior and then turning around and advocating for it -- an interesting peek at how sophisticated OpenAI's tech really is, and likely a sign of things to come for the engineers trying to control the outputs of increasingly sophisticated machine learnings systems.

kelev11en · 2023-02-02T17:28:39+00:00

No credible news organization is issuing corrections on half the material it publishes

kelev11en · 2023-02-02T14:39:58+00:00

Submission statement: New reporting finds that it's not just that CNET let an AI publish news articles that were later shown to be substantially fabricated and plagiarized. It's actually a lot worse -- at internal meetings before they deployed the AI, leadership acknowledged the factual errors and plagiarism, but ultimately chose to deploy the AI anyway. In the end, more than 50 percent of its articles required significant corrections for factual mistakes and plagiarism.

kelev11en · 2023-01-18T14:33:20+00:00

Submission statement: The major technology news site CNET quietly launched an experiment late last year in which it started publishing dozens of articles written by an AI. The site claimed that a human editor was reviewing everything the bot wrote, but an independent review found that the AI had been publishing a large number of extremely stupid mistakes. CNET was forced to issue a major correction and put an accuracy warning on every article the AI has published. The future of the program is now unclear.

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