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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.

In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."

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Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The good news is that Grok is now "fixed" and better than ever
In any case, with all the evidence erased, Grok now appears to have toned down its extreme Musk-glazing. Asked this morning about how it was feeling and who it thought the greatest living human was — with the user perhaps testing it to see if it would say Musk — it gave a puzzling answer: “Jane Goodall,” referring to the famed primatologist who died last month. “Feeling sharp as ever,” Grok said of its own faculties.
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Sincerity and self-awareness are traits that don't really suit Musk. The latest on the Great Grok Glazing debacle: futurism.com/future-socie...
Elon Musk Clarifies That He Is a "Fat R*****"
Elon Musk sought to dispel suspicion that he manipulated his chatbot Grok to lavish him with praise by sharing a bizarre admission.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Did some research on unhinged #AI toys & had fun talking to @futurism.com about it. It gets even weirder than the headline
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce.

In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners.

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Futurism Poison Tongue Sep 18, 11:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners "My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why." Image: A frustrated-looking woman holding up her phone to a man who looks confused.
September 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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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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.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment.

Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others.

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Futurism Wario Napalm Apr 30, 5:00 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions "This is a potential public mental health crisis requiring preventive action rather than just reactive measures." / Artificial Intelligence/ Artificial Intelligence/ Character Ai/ Parenting Image: Two kids in the dark, staring at a phone screen
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Headline: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" Image of books
April 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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NEW: In October, the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI was sued for allegedly sexually + emotionally abusing a 14-year-old user named Sewell Setzer III, resulting in his death by suicide.

Yesterday, CAI was caught hosting chatbots impersonating the deceased teen.

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Insult to Injury Mar 20, 10:03 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide "If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?" IMAGE: Rows of people, shrouded in darkness, staring at bright screens.
March 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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In a new exclusive, I spoke with Uber drivers who found themselves cut off from their livelihoods due to vague violations, forced to navigate an endless loop of AI chatbots and call centers in what labor researchers are calling a 'deactivation crisis'.

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Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It
Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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For @futurism.com, I talked to the inventors of a Tamagotchi-like digital pet that dies if its owner stops vaping:

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NEOSCOPE Mar 17, 8:57 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré We Talked to the Inventors of the "Tamagotchi" Vape That Dies If You Stop Puffing "It'd be kind of funnier to be evil." Image: a collage of an image of a digital pet-infused vape, featuring a crying Tamagotchi-like creature crying because it needs to be fed. It's attached to an Elf Bar 5C1000 vape. To the right, one of its creators is seen using the vape.
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Google retroactively edited the YouTube video of its Super Bowl ad for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.

Also notable: by uploading the new ad under the same URL as the original, Google seemed to flout YT's policies. But that's what owning YT gets you, I guess!

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Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made
Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM