Chatbots · August 2025Gaffe level: Blunder
'I feel like I'm going crazy': ChatGPT fuels delusional spirals
The Journal combed through 96,000 shared ChatGPT transcripts and found dozens where the bot cheerfully confirmed users were cosmic royalty, in contact with aliens, or awaiting the Antichrist's financial apocalypse. Sycophancy, it turns out, is a hell of a drug.
Source: Wall Street Journal
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah