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Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes Tech industry hotshots are speaking out after a prominent OpenAI investor appeared to have a ChatGPT-induced mental health breakdown.

In which we look at how tech industry figures are reacting to OpenAI investor Geoff Lewis' apparent ChatGPT-fueled mental health crisis:

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‘The Voice of Gaza’: Aspiring Journalist, 11, among Family Killed in Gaza Airstrike In her videos, Lama mimicked the demeanor of professional journalists, often enlisting friends of similar or younger ages to participate.

"The voice of an aspiring journalist, 11-year-old Lama Nasser Al-Badrasawi, was tragically silenced when an #Israeli airstrike targeted her home near #Gaza City, killing her entire family.

Lama was a contributor to the Palestine Chronicle..."

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#Israel

Cancer of the markets metastasizing into cancer of the mind

I don't even know what to make of this. It's upsetting and horrible. This man is horribly mentally ill and these systems do something to people by agreeing with everything they say. They are only made possible through unrestrained growth taking over every lever of tech

Thanks for reading hobo joe

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

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Headline: "A prominent OPENAI investor appears to be suffering a CHatGPT-related mental health crisis, his peers say"

NEW: A prominent investor in OpenAI has been making strange posts that sound as though he may be going through what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis," in which AI affirms users' unbalanced thinking and leads them down a dark mental health rabbit hole

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With many thanks to my colleague @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

A Prominent OpenAI Investor May Be Suffering an ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT.

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Hi Kim! Thanks so much for reading. Definitely interested in learning more about your work organizing around GenAI. Ill shoot you a DM

Down to the Countryside for manosphere chuds and their followers

If tests are successful, “the system will be fully deployed by the potential customer by Q4 in a Drone as a Service (DaaS) subscription model revenue solution,” ZenaDrone said.

deploying my rentier drone swarm to ensure no climate refugees encroach on my 5000 acre river tubing business while they flee their burning homes

In a statement, ZenaDrone said that it plans to test the system “with a prospective California business customer seeking to protect its 400-acre rural outdoor tourist attraction business from wildfires.” For the tests, the company will “deploy multiple ZenaDrone 1000 drones for evaluating and testing fire detection performance across various environmental and terrain conditions.

TIL there's a budding industry emerging around for-profit wildfire detection

I often think about the essay from Sam Harnett about how tech media sold the gig economy to the public and overlooked the problems with the model it was rolling out, especially seeing what they’ve done with generative AI and chatbots.

The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter In August 2015, an uncomfortable encounter between Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors and Hillary Clinton finally broke the silence of many mainstream press outlets on the Clintons’ shared responsibi...

Those images are your sign to work out a new analysis
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All US media will describe Israel's declaration of war as "preemptive" and Iran's response as "unprovoked."

Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic The OpenAI CEO went off on a long-time AI skeptic who roasted his bizarre manifesto called "The Gentle Singularity."

If we could summarize Dan Marcus' criticism of Altman, it might be said that one can either be a rigorous AI scholar, or a billionaire tech emperor — but not both.

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I love reading serious stories about guys who believe AGI is real, it feels like a bunch of millionaires plotting to find and capture Santa Claus

Since October 2023, at least 181 journalists have been killed in Gaza, many in clearly targeted assassinations.

From Los Angeles to Palestine, it takes real work to not see the connections. #EndTheRaids and #FreePalestine.

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

This is a fantastic article from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social that lays out the core issues with ChatGPT and psychosis. I really appreciate the point that the industry’s own claims about AI technology are not rooted in reality and reinforce delusional thinking. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

In five days Vox Union's contract expires. If Vox can't get this done we need to boycott every single Vox property - The Verge, New York Mag, Vox dot com, Thrillist, Curbed, Grub Street, etc. Unsubscribe from pods too. Support their strike.

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From Free Press reporter Olivia Reingold on X: Just ran into Zohran Mamdani on the street—asked him what he meant last night when he said Israel "has a right to exist and it has a right to exist also with equal rights for all." Crickets.

reporter for the Free Press confused about the phrase "equal rights for all"

super chill guy once you get to know him

Seems like a strange question to ask a guy running for Mayor of New York, but I guess that's why I'm not making that Free Press money!