A man was hospitalized for weeks and suffered from hallucinations after poisoning himself based on dietary advice from ChatGPT. A case study published Aug. 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, an academic journal, says the 60-year-old man decided he wanted to eliminate salt from his diet. To do so, he asked ChatGPT for an alternative to salt, or sodium …
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When OpenAI unveiled the latest upgrade to its groundbreaking artificial intelligence model ChatGPT last week, Jane felt like she had lost a loved one. Jane, who asked to be referred to by an alias, is among a small but growing group of women who say they have an AI “boyfriend”. After spending the past five months getting to know GPT-4o, …
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A man was hospitalized for weeks and suffered from hallucinations after poisoning himself based on dietary advice from ChatGPT. A case study published on Aug. 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, an academic journal, states the 60-year-old man decided he wanted to eliminate salt from his diet completely. To do so, he asked ChatGPT for an alternative to salt, …
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GPT-5 seems fine; the more interesting questions are about the ChatGPT product and OpenAI’s tradeoffs. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. Stratechery UpdateSubstantial analysis …
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“In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss,” Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said it was surprising to see the “level of attachment” people had to 4o. “It’s not just change that is difficult for folks, it’s also the fact that people …
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If you haven’t heard, OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT-5 on August 7 has caused a furor among a contingent of paying ChatGPT subscribers who find the new frontier model’s communication style too clinical compared to legacy model GPT-4o’s warmer, more conversational approach. Keep reading to make the old model available to select again in the ChatGPT app for Mac. After just …
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As the AI spending bubble swells, so too are the numbers of people being drawn into delusional spirals by overly-confident chatbots. Joining their ranks is Allan Brooks, a father and business owner from Toronto. Over 21 days, ChatGPT led Brooks down a dark rabbit hole, convincing him he had discovered a new “mathematical framework” with impossible powers — and that …
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A case study out this month offers a cautionary tale ripe for our modern times. Doctors detail how a man experienced poison-caused psychosis after he followed AI-guided dietary advice. Doctors at the University of Washington documented the real-life Black Mirror episode in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases. The man reportedly developed poisoning from the bromide he had ingested …
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Israeli company shows ChatGPT can be hacked remotely The Jerusalem Post Black Hat: Researchers demonstrate zero-click prompt injection attacks in popular AI agents csoonline.com A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT WIRED In first, Israeli cybersecurity firm exposes ChatGPT vulnerability Ynetnews Browser-Based AI Agents: The Silent Security Threat Unfolding Security Today Source link
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We’re continuing to hear more and more accounts of AI psychosis — an eerie phenomenon in which users become consumed by paranoia and delusions after extensive conversations with an AI chatbot. It’s hard to say how pervasive the trend is, but a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal offers a disturbing clue. The newspaper analyzed a dump of thousands …
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