Maggie Harrison
Senior Staff Writer at Futurism
Senior staff writer at @futurism | Send tips (!!!) to my email: [email protected] or signal: mhd.39 ~~~ also over at https://t.co/G0jDUT3FO7
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2 weeks ago |
futurism.com | Maggie Harrison
Huge numbers of people are either already using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as therapists, or turning to commercial AI therapy platforms for help during dark moments. But is the tech ready for that immense responsibility?
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Maggie Harrison
2 hours agoIt apparently took just days to make using Google’s new text-to-video generator, Veo 3. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform …
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2 weeks ago |
futurism.com | Maggie Harrison
Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental health crises. A mother of two, for instance, told us how she watched in alarm as her former husband developed an all-consuming relationship with the OpenAI chatbot, calling it "Mama" and posting delirious rants about being a messiah in a new AI religion, while dressing in shamanic-looking robes and showing off freshly-inked tattoos of AI-generated spiritual symbols.
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4 weeks ago |
futurism.com | Maggie Harrison
In the cash grab for patients eager to get on GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic, startups are getting so sloppy that their marketing materials look like unintentional parody. Consider MEDVi, an online prescription hub for GLP-1s. The company wants you to know that it's "serious" about helping you lose weight, according to its website, which entreats visitors to join "50,000+ MEDVi patients" who have turned to the service for weight loss help.
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1 month ago |
futurism.com | Maggie Harrison
This is dangerous. No Rules, No ExceptionsThe latest version of the Republicans' Budget Reconciliation Bill — the "one big, beautiful bill," as President Trump has called it — includes a clause that would ban all AI regulation in the US at the state level for a full decade. Over 100 organizations, CNN reports, are calling for lawmakers not to pass it.
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RT @royalpratt: People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions. “What these bots are saying is worsening del…
RT @IoT2040: Excellent reporting here by @mags_h11 abt how a sycophantic, enabling #ChatGPT is reinforcing unstable minds & sending people…
NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT. Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions/conspiracies. https://t.co/iMg3J4tNmt https://t.co/XVS9dfvqhA