I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
you’re telling me this techno is feudalist
In recent polls, Democrats appear tied or ahead in four Republican-controlled seats (the number they would need to take the Senate). These include Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Alaska. There are also signs that Republicans could be in trouble in two more states: Iowa and Texas.
"After making headway in the nonfiction television space for more than a decade, the WGA East is continuing its push to organize reality TV- and documentary-focused production companies." www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Some pretty horrific accusations in this piece: Swalwell allegedly drugged and choked a woman until she lost consciousness.
“‘I thought I died,’ she said.”
Hey now! Kinda wild that it took the Swalwell debacle & threats of dual expulsions to do it, but damn
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.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreidy34if6qaoxglmgyuqzd45qrtblapduetgu6y3m4vwuto6etcmem)
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 hate that this is a tale as old as time. Props to the brave women who came forward.
smash
Paramount responds to Hollywood creatives' letter against its WBD acquisition, reiterating its commitment for 30+ theatrical feature films annually, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
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scoop: more than 1,000 directors, writers, actors and other entertainment industry professionals have signed an open letter opposing Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
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Budapest looking absolutely lit rn
I remember hearing the term "news fatigue" for the first time in 2016-2017. That phrase feels a bit... quaint nowadays
lol I definitely don't think this is what Netflix had in mind when they offered me this interview
Timeline cleanse
“Today the IRGC operates or funds at least 50 production houses…the ones that matter most right now…are small, fast, and built for the internet, made by a new generation coming to power…one that is younger, savvier, and less afraid of the U.S.”
Somewhere in the corner of the Oval Office, a FIFA Peace Prize trophy slowly collects dust.
Curious how a sprawling conflict in the Middle East will impact this.
7:00 P.M. Brooklyn, NY.
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
We are in a very bad and terrible place in history. Please help our government find the political will to fight back against the tyranny we are seeing in office. We have to get the right people into office. People who will fight for us.
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I know this movie will probably make a lot of money, but this is so upsetting.
Crazy to just have to just sit and wait and see if your tax dollars are going to go towards taking innocent lives tonight.
Trump is giving big “Amanda Bynes circa 2013” vibes right now.
Semisonic really popped off when they said “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
streaming today on Mubi, and *extremely* worth your time
<I’m wheeled into the Pitt>
Santos: male, 36, at happy hour, now saying “tummy feel crazy”
Al-Hashimi: 47% of men’s bodies reject modern IPAs. They’re too hoppy now
Robi: the silent killer. Get him to surgery
McKay <alone now, staring straight at camera>: I am the same type of communist as you
I don’t know what it says about me that I can’t watch “The Pitt” because it makes me too queasy, but I LOVE watching YouTube videos of doctors breaking down the medical accuracy of each episode in gory detail.
*hunger games cannon*
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