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People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help

On March 13, a woman from Salt Lake City (UT) called the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint against OpenAI’s ChatGPT. She claimed to be acting “on behalf of her son, who was experiencing a delusional breakdown.” “The consumer’s son has been interacting with an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, which is advising him not to take his prescribed medication and telling him that his parents are dangerous,” reads the FTC’s summary of the call.

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) key US-EAST-1 region, its hub in northern Virginia, near the US Capitol, caused widespread disruptions of websites and platforms around the world on October 20.