NEW: Medvi -- the compounded drug marketer featured in *that* NYT profile -- issued a statement yesterday in response to public scrutiny over dishonest marketing tactics (fake doctors, fake patients) and an FDA warning.
We have (more) questions.
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NEW: Google News is now prominently featuring Polymarket bets, right alongside real/trustworthy publications
My $0.02: you couldn't come up with a better way to undermine any remaining trust in the news media in a lab
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NEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox.
In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."
Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
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🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info.
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.
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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
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In any case, with all the evidence erased, Grok now appears to have toned down its extreme Musk-glazing. Asked this morning about how it was feeling and who it thought the greatest living human was — with the user perhaps testing it to see if it would say Musk — it gave a puzzling answer: “Jane Goodall,” referring to the famed primatologist who died last month. “Feeling sharp as ever,” Grok said of its own faculties.
The good news is that Grok is now "fixed" and better than ever
Sincerity and self-awareness are traits that don't really suit Musk. The latest on the Great Grok Glazing debacle: futurism.com/future-socie...
Did some research on unhinged #AI toys & had fun talking to @futurism.com about it. It gets even weirder than the headline
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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Futurism Poison Tongue Sep 18, 11:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners "My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why." Image: A frustrated-looking woman holding up her phone to a man who looks confused.
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.
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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.
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Futurism Wario Napalm Apr 30, 5:00 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions "This is a potential public mental health crisis requiring preventive action rather than just reactive measures." / Artificial Intelligence/ Artificial Intelligence/ Character Ai/ Parenting Image: Two kids in the dark, staring at a phone screen
NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment.
Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others.
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Headline: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" Image of books
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Insult to Injury Mar 20, 10:03 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide "If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?" IMAGE: Rows of people, shrouded in darkness, staring at bright screens.
NEW: In October, the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI was sued for allegedly sexually + emotionally abusing a 14-year-old user named Sewell Setzer III, resulting in his death by suicide.
Yesterday, CAI was caught hosting chatbots impersonating the deceased teen.
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In a new exclusive, I spoke with Uber drivers who found themselves cut off from their livelihoods due to vague violations, forced to navigate an endless loop of AI chatbots and call centers in what labor researchers are calling a 'deactivation crisis'.
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NEOSCOPE Mar 17, 8:57 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré We Talked to the Inventors of the "Tamagotchi" Vape That Dies If You Stop Puffing "It'd be kind of funnier to be evil." Image: a collage of an image of a digital pet-infused vape, featuring a crying Tamagotchi-like creature crying because it needs to be fed. It's attached to an Elf Bar 5C1000 vape. To the right, one of its creators is seen using the vape.
For @futurism.com, I talked to the inventors of a Tamagotchi-like digital pet that dies if its owner stops vaping:
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Google retroactively edited the YouTube video of its Super Bowl ad for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.
Also notable: by uploading the new ad under the same URL as the original, Google seemed to flout YT's policies. But that's what owning YT gets you, I guess!
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