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Jesus.
Jesus.
Jesus.
MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.
The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.
This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.
A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.
So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.
Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.
Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.
Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.
The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.
What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
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In Texas they found 117 potential noncitizens out of 18 million voters. That's .00065%. And that's an an upper bound; these are merely "potential" noncitizens.
This is a fake problem.
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「Autodesk Days 2026」にて9月10日に『閃光のハサウェイ キルケーの魔女』を題材にしたセッションを開催！爆発表現の裏側を語る！
gundam-official.com/news/n8g…
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Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb: Trump is an evil, malignant narcissist, convicted felon, rapist.
Capehart: I just have to stop you. You just called the president a rapist. He has not been convicted of rape.
Cobb: A federal judge who oversaw the E. Jean Carroll trial said he was guilty of rape.
Capehart: No, no. Sexual assault.
Cobb: No. You’re wrong.
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Trump had to start a war with Iran to distract us from asking what it says about him in the Epstein files, but that went so badly that he now has to start a beef with Canada to distract us from the war with Iran.
Expect two more years of these.
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FLUX 3 is here for the scenes that need more than one take.
Now in Autodesk Flow Studio, FLUX 3 supports image and text prompts, keyframes, video continuation, multiple shots, camera changes, native audio, dialogue, and sound effects.
A whole new world opens up when you can direct what happens next.
Try FLUX 3 in Flow Studio: flowstudio.autodesk.com
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これ知ってた？
moveToolのMove falloffを「Contact」から「Exponential」に変えるとポインターから一番近いキーから影響を受けて動いてくれる。
これキーが多い時に調整するのに便利すぎるんだけど…
#少し幸せになれるかもしれないTipsシリーズ
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Ossoff: When he first announced the tariffs, you remember that? He called it Liberation Day, and it crashed the markets because it was clown policy. You remember that?
OK, so follow me through on this. He announces the tariffs on April 2 of last year. The markets tank nonstop for like a week because it’s a disastrous trade policy, and six days into the crash, April 8, Trump buys millions in stock. I’m talking Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and then the very next morning, April 9, he posts on Truth Social, quote, “This is a great time to buy.” Three exclamation marks.
OK, now listen to this. Three hours and 41 minutes after that post, one day after he bought millions in stock, he canceled the tariffs and triggered one of the biggest same-day rebound rallies in market history.
He’s trying to get money. And you saw, now he’s offering paid subscriptions to presidential announcements, right? Just understand what’s for sale here: The sitting president’s pronouncements on war and peace and economic policy delivered first to paying customers.
What an absolute crook.
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The most alarming thing about this graph is not just the amount of change, but the smooth consistency of the curve. If this were a startup I'd be really confident about their future growth. Unfortunately it is instead the planet we live on.
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AI video has a control problem.
Most AI tools generate in 2D. Filmmakers think, stage, and direct in 3D.
Today we're introducing Flow Studio 3D Editor + Canvas.
Build and direct your scene in 3D. Then use Canvas to render and refine the final look with leading AI models.
Stay in 2D when speed matters.
Move into 3D when you need precision.
AI can build the scene.
You still call the shots.
Start directing: flowstudio.com
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JUST IN: In one of the most corrupt moves in recent history, Trump Media has launched a new paid service that gives banks, trading firms, and other wealthy clients faster, real-time access to Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts.
Starting Saturday, for a fee of up to $100,000 a month, the new “Truth API” gives paying clients direct access to Trump’s most market-moving posts.
Trump’s family is the largest shareholder in Trump Media, meaning it stands to profit from selling wealthy traders faster access to the president’s market-moving posts.
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Zeke Hausfather is a Berkley University climate scientist, one of the most respected academic institutions in the world.
He is known for not being ‘alarmist’, some accuse him of being too conservative.
What’s he’s telling us below is deeply alarming.
Please listen, engage and report what he’s saying:
@piersmorgan @mrjamesob @TomSwarbrick1 @vicderbyshire @jonsopel @maitlis @Emmabarnett @tombradby @WilfredFrost @CliveMyrieBBC @amolrajan @SophyRidgeSky @TVNaga01 @OborneTweets @JohnSimpsonNews @richardpbacon @rickedwards1 @MickBooker @carolvorders @bbcvickiyoung @KamaliMelbourne @BBCsarahsmith @kirstiemallsopp @IainDale
@krishgm @tombradby @skynews @itvnews @ITNProductions @esmewren @adamboultonTABB @KayBurley @alexberesfordTV @kayeadams @janem @rickygervais @rachelburden @bbcnews @NickyAACampbell @ShelaghFogarty @BenKentish @bbcnickrobinson @susannareid100
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#Maya 2027.2 lets you train your own custom AI animation models
A new 'Bring Your Own Data' feature enables studios train custom #AI models for #MotionMaker, Maya's generative #animation system, on their own keyframe or #mocap data
cgchannel.com/2026/07/maya-2…
#VFX #gamedev
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Maya new Hydra Viewport update!
github.com/Autodesk/maya-hyd…
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⚠️ Boring bot not found.
Neural Layer, now with LoRA, keeps characters consistent through camera changes, motion, and cuts, so you can move into Live Action with fewer touch-ups along the way.
Boot up Flow Studio today at flowstudio.com
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I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.
250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.
A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.
An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.
The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.
A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.
A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.
Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.
$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.
And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.
And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?
Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.
For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?
Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?
They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.
