Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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):

It would only be better if they were playing either the Padres or the Cardinals.

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.

The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.

We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Friends, the social pressure not to mask is real, and it is strong. I truly get it. But we must overcome that pressure to keep one another safe, for Long Covid is also real and strong. The emergence of a new variant will likely add to the potential complications that can arise. So mask up, friends 😷

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

Woohoo!

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine.

They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal.

A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Crimes against humanity upon crimes against humanity

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.

Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.

Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

This wasn't some random mistake: both the State Department and USAID called the contraceptives 'abortion'.

And when international groups tried to buy the stockpile so it wouldn’t be destroyed, the administration refused, citing the Global Gag Rule. A policy that prevents U.S. funding FOR ABORTION

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face:

Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences.

For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

👇🏽 great example of how the NYT continues to — has never stopped — engaging in platforming anti-Black, genocidal rhetoric and how it is so normalized that it is not discussed in those terms (not a criticism of Victor, just noting the way our cultural vocabulary shifts for discussions anti-Blackness)

NOTHING. OpenAI bought NO RAM. EVER. This was an entirely "letter of intent" based story that nobody bothered to actually read up on. An embarrassment to journalism that it spread this far

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships.

There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

Hey Maine, seems there’s no need to settle for a Schumer-picked elderly centrist OR a shady Nazi tattoo guy!

Very progressive candidate also running to defeat the Republican who is concerned about Trump but not concerned enough not to vote for all his shit.

Check out her platform, it’s good! ⬇️

ICE agents should be fired, not deployed to airports.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

sorry what possible legal justification is there for not being banned from driving

Did a big thread about this on Twitter a few years back, about how the Columbine shooters were steeped in nazi rhetoric, including eugenicist beliefs about killing disabled people, and just how much their neo-nazism wasn't just downplayed but omitted. Text from:

schoolshooters.info/sites/defaul...

An attack on power plants that serve civilians is an explicit war crime under the Geneva Convention Protocols.

Susan Collins called the cops because of sidewalk chalk. The woman behind it is running for US Senate. Bangor resident Andrea LaFlamme is publicly identifying herself as the sidewalk chalker as she mounts a longshot campaign for US Senate.

For those who may not know, yes I am the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of Susan Collins’ house. Not only did she call the police to erase my work (violating my 1st am right), but she’s since moved to a house without a sidewalk. She’s already made it clear that she’s intimidated by me.

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

Everyone: You’re such a great candidate, how come I haven’t heard anything about your campaign?

Me: (see video)

Care to fix this Penobscot County Democratic Committee?

#mepolitics #mainedems #democrat #maine #midterms #midterms2026 #ussenate #heybangor #bangor #penobscot #penobscotcounty

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive dat...

For years, Microsoft had failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server.

Given that and other unknowns, government reviewers couldn’t vouch for the tech’s security.

It was approved anyway.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

Hate Congress?

Invest in a new one!

I am running against Tom Suozzi (D(?)-NY), who continues to vote for laws that accelerate our descent into fascism.

I, on the other hand, dislike fascism and want you to have nice things.

www.votewelch.com

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

Congress dialogue tree:
A. Sorry, we don't have a majority
B. Sorry, we don't have a supermajority
C. Sorry, we have to support the president
D. [say nothing, avoid all media]

Earlier today in Queens, a woman who’s lived in her home for 20 years was forcibly removed from her home and arrested by NYPD, who mobilized their ESU barricade unit to remove her & at least 2 community advocates inside.

StopDeedTheft says this is an illegal eviction resulting from deed theft.