#Technology ，

[pc98-rom]

Dewey, 2009

[kenyatta]

Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.  Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.”  “It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.

- PEOPLE ARE LOSING LOVED ONES TO AI-FUELED SPIRITUAL FANTASIES, Rolling Stone, May 4, 2025

(archive.today link here)

[stupidfuckingbunny]

Absolutely. Yes. Please.

I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

[shamebats]

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. From January, Europe’s crash-testing organization EuroNCAP, or New Car Assessment Program, will incentivize automakers to fit physical, easy-to-use, and tactile controls to achieve the highest safety ratings. “Manufacturers are on notice,” EuroNCAP’s director of strategic development Matthew Avery tells WIRED, “they’ve got to bring back buttons.”

[pc98-rom]

[thererisesaredstar]

Kim Jong-un inspects the newly completed e-sports complex in Pyongyang's Hwasong neighborhood (2025)

[athelind]

This is making the rounds in another Tumblr thread, but it directly addresses the thoughts above:

Absolutely buckwild thread of ChatGPT feeding & amplifying delusions, causing the user to break with reality. People are leaning on ChatGPT for therapy, for companionship, for advice... and it's fucking them up.

Seems to be spreading too.

[guerrillatech]

Mark is a fucking weirdo

[gottastim]

vanilla.catt on ig

[salvrun]

The terrible thing is: so long as it’s right more than 50% to 60% of the time, the savings from firing everyone who’s jobs it does pays for just accounting for that margin of error in the spread sheets.

Any higher than that and it’s pure profit.

got a major pest problem this year actually

[itsfullofstars]

SOURCE: europeanspaceagency https://flic.kr/p/2qVN1Hc

[tea-knight]

[catchymemes]

[luparaneo]

Unfortunately, Microsoft has stated they're going to remove the oobe/bypassnro command in later builds of Windows 11, for "security and user experience reasons", apparently.

We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.

Because immediately connecting a fresh computer to the internet and forcing online accounts is totally secure and a great user experience, right? Anyway, there's already an alternative, though I don't have a fresh Windows 11 to try it on myself. You'll need to open the command prompt in the same way and use this command instead:

start ms-cxh:localonly

Anywho, move to Linux. I'm trying out EndeavourOS on the side and like it so far, but fair warning that Arch is infamous for being a little more on the complex end of distros.

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[pc98-rom]

Gus, 2007