2023: apnews.com/article/fact...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

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. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

folks surfaced a lot of past brendan carr tweets that seem to contradict his current agenda but i feel like this one got unfairly slept on a bit

Let's get out there and be politically appropriate today folks

One story that’s stuck with me from this reporting is about a family that dissolved after a woman, who is bipolar, suffered a breakdown after encountering in ChatGPT that culminated in physical abuse against her husband. He says this was completely new behavior and had never occurred before. 1/2

Reading the piece the thing that jumps out, over and over, the thing that ChatGPT provides above and beyond what you'd get from, say, venting to a friend about your relationship, is the impression of authority and objectivity because it comes labelled and presented as "knowing everything".

my mom @ pretty much all of my reporting this year basically

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

"The loss is immense…it can be really hard to sort through my feelings to understand what is grief over the end of a marriage, shock from the Black Mirror episode that is my life, anger at Sam Altman, concern for my kids, traces of hope that maybe there's a way to help her, and profound loneliness"

Use ChatGPT for relationship advice at your peril.

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. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

"There is a pendulum swing toward something approaching cancel culture and actual, government-backed censorship on big social media platforms." @jakelahut.writes.news

NEW: A $2.8 million startup has somehow managed to make AI job interviews even worse. Read to the end for one of the most infuriating kickers I can recall! futurism.com/job-applicat...

consider a beautiful exploding prosecco to go with your exquisite radioactive shrimp

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Happening today: futurism.com/parents-test...

This week's Depresh Mode is a troubling look at the phenomenon of people turning to AI and their mental health getting shot all to hell. If you want to fly people in a plane or sell a ladder, there are all sorts of safety regulations. If you want to offer a bot that claims to be a real person, none.

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.

Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Riley Gaines, O Great Protector of Girls and Women, awfully quiet on Epstein news

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

He realized it was already September 1st

I keep asking this to everyone who brings up sports (and haven't gotten a response from anyone yet), but I'll do it again: Watch this video and explain to me why this 14 year old girl shouldn't be allowed to play field hockey with her friends. I'll wait. youtu.be/yf9MfYZ-Bl4?...

Oh my god

An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.

go girl give us nothing

Mohammad Halimi barely escaped Afghanistan in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power — only to later have DOGE, Elon Musk and right-wing media suggest he was a funnel for Taliban funding, putting him and his loved ones at risk.

Could not be more thrilled to join @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social next week!

I'm actually a bit in awe that Sam Altman's "learning" in response to ChatGPT users experience legitimate distress following a sudden change to its sycophantic product is that AI needs to be MORE personalized per user futurism.com/sam-altman-a...

Man what the fuck

all this talk about AI being a transformative technology and not enough talk about the cultural impact of the t-shirt gun

New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

It would seem to me that there are a lot of ways to tell Joaquin Oliver's story and none of them should be this

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

NEW: A support and information-sharing group has launched for people reeling from the life-altering impacts of "AI psychosis." It's called The Spiral. "I had at some point, like, eight responses," one founder told us, "and six of them were suicide or hospitalizations." futurism.com/support-grou...

NEW: A support and information-sharing group has launched for people reeling from the life-altering impacts of "AI psychosis." It's called The Spiral. "I had at some point, like, eight responses," one founder told us, "and six of them were suicide or hospitalizations." futurism.com/support-grou...

Something very interesting is happening: tech industry insiders are suddenly getting very concerned that ChatGPT is causing severe mental health problems in users -- including potentially top figures in the AI sector itself futurism.com/tech-industr...

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Bananamode activate

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. futurism.com/openai-inves...

Recent Westleys

Adolescence is suddenly getting REALLY weird -- imagine memories of your "best friend" being an AI controlled by some tech company futurism.com/teens-ai-fri...