The way this country prioritises profit over children (and every other vulnerable group) is sickening.

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Appalling behaviour from those with agendas other than concern over fuel prices. The Muslim Sisters of Éire do incredible work feeding and helping unhoused people.

Please donate to them if you can. msoe.ie/donate/

Protesters escorted into library by Gardai for demo against LGBTQ+ books

'Horror' after Clare protesters board bus to conduct 'headcount of asylum seekers' Protests have taken place at Magowna House hotel in Inch, Co Clare, after over 30 assylum seekers were moved into holiday homes there this week.

Coolock chaos: Far right flexing its muscles The far right know there is a general election ahead — and they are gearing up for it

Gardaí say fuel protests affecting emergency workers, medical appointments and businesses In a statement, Gardaí said the days of protests have caused significant disruption, and they have received reports of emergency workers being delayed or unable to reach work

I've got my conspiracy board out again desperately trying to find a connection between:

"Gardaí escort far right harassers into library"
"Far right board bus of refugees to headcount them"
"Far right blockade runs unchallenged for months"
&
"Far right shut country down for several days unchecked"

I present Christopher Duffy

❛ Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Midweek writing advice from Pulitzer winner Barbara Kingsolver, who was born #OTD in 1955.

A ginger cat sits upright on a wooden garden table. His eyes are mostly closed, his face lifted to the sun, and his little tongue sticks slightly out of his mouth.

Mlem

Watching The Pitt
**they crank open someone’s entire chest and massage the heart internally**
Me: Woah, cool!
**they give someone eye drops**
Me: Jesus fucking Christ, this should have a content warning, that’s disgusting.

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

A photo of the River Liffey which bisects Dublin City. The evening sky, reflected in the river, looks very much like a trans pride flag. Blue to pink to white 🏳️‍⚧️ 🥰

Happy #TransDayofVisibility
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

I respect that level of stubbornness

And did you use AI to make this shart survey image?

If only we could figure out why more than 5000 children are unhoused/in emergency accommodation in our wealthy country. It is, however, a complete mystery.

Choctaw Nation Buys Former Big Lots Warehouse, Closing Off Oklahoma ICE Detention Site The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

It’s always the cunts you expect the most

Today is World Rewilding Day. This year's theme is #ChooseOurFuture

🌍 What kind of future do you want to live in?

The IWT’s vision is an Ireland where wild nature thrives, and society enjoys the benefits of coexisting with diverse, functioning ecosystems.

🎥 www.youtube.com/@irishwildli...

The Dune poster with Timotay & Zendaya reads: Dune The Leavin

#SpéirGhorm

Wow, I didn’t know you could do that

- Micheál Martin, probably

Evil weapons boss vows to destroy women's rights is a bit on the nose even for 2026.

Sickening but no surprise Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home

Sickening but no surprise
Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for
Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home

#speirgorm

A handsome mallard stands on a low wall, amid some weeds. Behind him is a city building and commuters walking and cycling.

On his way to work

Well said, CMAT 💪🏼❤️

A person holds a trans flag on a pole in front of a mountain. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "Allies encouraged to send letters to trans community in powerful campaign". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".

"... behind the noise, there are thousands upon thousands of women who see you, respect you, and stand with you.” Read 👉 buff.ly/xoBpIOv #GCNnews

Boycott Ireland V ISRAEL PHONE PICKET TO ACCOMPANY PROTEST AT HEADQUARTERS FRIDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 1.30PM CALL FAI HEADQUARTERS ON 01 899 9500

*FAI Phone Picket* - Boycott Ireland V Israel!
1.30pm or anytime Friday 20.02.26

Call FAI HQ at 01 8999 500 and tell them the Ireland/Israel matches must NOT go ahead!

Support the protest outside FAI headquarters by joining a phone picket. #speirgorm #gaza #israel #football #FAI #soccer

Wow.

When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room
Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax
So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home

Me at Oireachtas
#speirgorm

Landlords, who could not even be bothered to stay awake for the vote, passed a bill last night designed to make themselves wealthier.

We need to build a movement against this right wing government, made up of landlords who rule in the interests of uber-wealthy corporate landlords and vulture funds

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

“It’s not pedophilia, it’s a Sparkling Age Gap Relationship”

🤢