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Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

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A Border Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

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A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency that is really encouraging its agents to actively intimidate and terrorize people," one expert said.

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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

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Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

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Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets

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Podcast: Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets

Shared ChatGPT indexed by Google; how Wikipedia is fighting AI slop; and the history of how we got to Steam censorship.

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ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm

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ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm

MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.

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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.

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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops

Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles

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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles

“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

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