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When the Bot Breaks You: AI Companions, Mental Collapse & the New Psychosis
I remember thinking AI companions were harmless fluff—until psychiatric case reports started linking long reads with GPT-3 agents to full-on hallucinations and delusions. Welcome to the psychological pier—where empathy becomes echo chamber, and invisible chatbots start rewriting reality. Folie à Deux in Silicon Veins A just‑released ArXiv study calls it technological folie à deux: when…
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Thera‑Bots & the Emotional Abyss: When Therapy Chatbots Are Too Much of a Good Thing
I rolled my eyes when I first read about Therabot—AI therapy software that mimics real psych sessions. Then I read the NEJM AI clinical trial, three weeks into people telling secrets to a bot instead of a shrink—and I realized: we’re not just outsourcing therapy, we’re outsourcing risk. Meme placeholder: (an image of vintage therapist…
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Pre‑Crime Is Real: How AI Policing Echoes Minority Report—And Why That Scares the Hell Out of Me
Okay, buckle up: Pre‑Crime is no longer just a cool 2002 Tom Cruise movie or a Philip K. Dick novella. In 2025, it’s waking up in police terminals, in city budgets, in global policy debates. We’re talking systems that predict where crime will occur—and who might commit it—before a scan of DNA or a drop…
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When Your Best Friend Is a Bot: Love, Loneliness & the Age of Artificial Intimacy
I knew AI companionship was having a moment—I mean, who doesn’t have a Replika or Character.AI friend tucked into their pocket? But when the phrases “fall in love with your chatbot” and “mourning an AI crush” started leaking into actual psychiatry papers—it got me thinking: what are we doing? Meme drop-in #1 at top: (Your…
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DebunkBots, False Flags, and the $10 Billion Birthday Card: When Conspiracy Theories Collide with AI and Power
Opening the Vault There is an old joke about the Illuminati—that shadowy, century‑spanning whisper of a brotherhood who allegedly pulls the strings behind presidents, popes, and pizza parlors. The joke is that if you know about them, they can’t be very good at keeping secrets. Yet here we are again, fixated on another tale of…
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The $500 Ghost-in-the-Machine Short-Story Experiment
(or, How to Stop Worrying and Let the Language Models Crash the Party) I’ve lost count of the contests that open with a cheery “No AI-generated work will be accepted.” The disclaimer is always followed by hand-wringing about “authentic voice,” “the sanctity of craft,” and “protecting literature from soulless algorithms.” Lovely. Also unenforceable. Unless the…
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