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Openai chatgpt health lawsuit

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Shannon Vallor Hypervisible Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Veni Kunche

““The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body t…”

“The spiraling shape will make you go insane. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

doi.org

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Shannon Vallor Jed Brown

“Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.”

3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Jed Brown: Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
Olivia Guest: Science and Nature on the whole definitely enjoy both siding this instead of taking a stance
Jed Brown: Oh yes. He can't help but glaze the products and imagine a future in which the inherent malfunctions do not exist. He clearly would benefit from reading your work. But even from his perspective and…
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3 experts · 11 posts · 4d ago
Shannon Vallor Matthew Kirschenbaum Jake Browning Joshua Grochow
Shannon Vallor: It bothers me how many AI critics are failing to keep their critiques aligned with where the models actually are. I hate to give it to the haters (of the haters), but good criticism has to get clos…
Shannon Vallor: I have deep sympathy—you don’t want to stay close to something that you are watching erode your students’ capacities and confidence in real time, or that’s capturing your government, or undermining…
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