ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate ‘innovation,’ contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.
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Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote?
The political manipulation machine
The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
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The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist
Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote?
The political manipulation machine
The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.
Get Your Kid a Watch
A smartwatch isn’t capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.
Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
Chatbots Are Becoming Really, Really Good Criminals
Cybersecurity was already a nightmare. Now comes AI.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?