The Psychology of AI: New Study Reveals “Synthetic Trauma” In ChatGPT And Gemini

Magazine cover illustration on Psychology of AI showing a chatbot in therapy confronting synthetic trauma.

Watch or Listen on YouTube The Psychology of AI: PsAIch, Synthetic Trauma, And Frontier LLMs 1. Introduction I trained to listen to humans, not to language models. Then a new paper landed in my inbox where the “patients” on the couch were ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini, and my usual tools suddenly became instruments in the … Read more

AI Misinformation Risk: Chatbots Sway Voters by Sacrificing Truth, Oxford Study Finds

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Watch or Listen on YouTube AI Misinformation Risk: Chatbots Sway Voters By Sacrificing Truth 1. The Persuasion Trade Off We Just Discovered AI misinformation is no longer science fiction. It is an optimization target. Picture this. You open a chat with a polite political assistant. You disagree with its position on some hot button issue, … Read more

AI Writing’s “Dead Loop”: Why Humans and AI Are Both Choosing Generated Content

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Watch or Listen on YouTube AI Writing’s Dead Loop: Why Humans and AI Are Both Choosing Generated Content Introduction There is an ancient symbol called the Ouroboros. It depicts a snake eating its own tail. For centuries, this represented infinity or the cycle of life. In the context of generative models, it represents something far … Read more

The AI Race Just Flipped: Inside the MIT Study Showing China Overtaking US in Open Source Models

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Watch or Listen on YouTube The AI Race Just Flipped: China Overtakes US in Open Source Models 1. Introduction For the last half-decade, the prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley has been one of absolute, unassailable dominance. The United States possesses the GPUs, the capital, and the talent. Everyone else is merely playing catch-up, drafting behind … Read more