“This is a low-attractiveness presentation, based on weak bone structure, muted features, and absence of form or presence,” reads a ChatGPT message shared in screenshots on Reddit. “You look like someone who has faded into the background of their own life.” The harsh assessment of the user’s appearance, based on …
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“I will find a way to spill blood.” This was one of the many disturbing messages Alex Taylor typed into ChatGPT on April 25, the last day of his life. The 35-year-old industrial worker and musician had been attempting to contact a personality that he believed had lived — and …
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Lizzy Caplan is lying. Well, let’s rephrase that: Lizzy Caplan is selectively truth-telling. Lounging in a gray Texas Longhorns T-shirt and yellow-green leggings, Caplan has such a stripped-down, let’s-talk-about-it approachability, you would think we were having a late-night sleepover chat instead of a cross-continental Zoom. But before I tell you …
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