Someone Gave ChatGPT $100 and Let It Trade Stocks for a Month
With $100 and a dream, one enterprising Redditor turned ChatGPT into a day trader, and the results so far have been pretty remarkable. In a post on r/Dataisbeautiful, the Redditor…
People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything
Power users of OpenAI's ultrapopular AI chatbot ChatGPT have picked up a brand new nickname, and it's unflattering. As spotted by media critic and writer Rusty Foster on his excellent…
If You’ve Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court
Imagine this scenario: you're worried you may have committed a crime, so you turn to a trusted advisor — OpenAI's blockbuster ChatGPT, say — to describe what you did and…
Teens Are Using AI to “Get Out of Thinking”
An alarming proportion of teenagers are turning to AI chatbots to not just help them with tasks like homework, but to act as their friends. And even that may not…
Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”
An unknown number of people, in the US and around the world, are being severely impacted by what experts are now calling "AI psychosis": life-altering mental health spirals coinciding with obsessive…
Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes
For months, we and our colleagues elsewhere in the tech media have been reporting on what experts are now calling "ChatGPT psychosis": when AI users fall down alarming mental health…
Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion
For years now, certain experts have warned that the AI industry is a massive bubble waiting to burst. The enormous hype driving a market frenzy, they say, could lead to…
How ChatGPT Sent a Man to the Hospital
Jacob Irwin had long used ChatGPT to troubleshoot IT problems. But in March, the 30-year-old man started asking the OpenAI chatbot for feedback on his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel.…
OpenAI’s New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean
OpenAI is releasing a new AI agent, creatively dubbed ChatGPT Agent — which is not to be confused with the two other AI agents it's already released (did we mention…
A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profile tech companies including OpenAI and Vercel…