Mostly False: Sam Altman says growing a single almond equals 38,000 ChatGPT queries – PolitiFact

… Altman’s comparison relies on a relatively low estimate for ChatGPT’s water use, and a very high estimate for almonds’ water use. Available estimates show you’d need anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 conversational AI prompts to equal the 6 liters of fresh water used to grow one California almond. OpenAI hasn’t published enough information to verify its estimates of the total water usage for its prompts…

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/04/sam-altman/chatgpt-almonds-ai-california-water-useage/

 

ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting – Mother Jones

I asked about practicing for “people running around screaming.” “That’s a great idea,” ChatGPT replied, “It’ll definitely give you an extra edge for the big day!”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/

Humans are having fun impersonating AI chatbots : NPR

The website Your AI Slop Bores Me takes its name from a meme people on social media use to criticize AI-generated content. The site — a fake AI chatbot — has only been around for about a month. But its creator, Mihir Maroju, said it's already received more than 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits. 

 "People are spending hours on the site," the 17-year-old high school graduate in Puducherry, India said in an interview with NPR. "I didn't really expect it to be so addictive."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5776842/ai-chatbot-comedy-ben-palmer-chatgpt

ChatGPT rates the song I made

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/06KSAYYg7Nc 

Attackers using ChatGPT to trick Mac users into installing MacStealer

Pasting commands into Terminal without understanding them is a dangerous thing to do at the best of times. If you do it at all, you should ensure that you absolutely trust the source. Sponsored results in Google are not at all trustworthy. 

It would be extremely easy for a non-technical user to fall for this, so you might want to alert your family and friends...

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/attackers-using-chatgpt-to-trick-mac-users-into-installing-macstealer/ 

 

The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame

The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his "suicide coach."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147 

 

China covertly using ChatGPT for propaganda posts on social media

Another element involved using ChatGPT to generate emails to journalists, analysts, and politicians in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation...

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/05/china-covertly-using-chatgpt-for-propaganda-posts-on-social-media-says-openai/

MAXIMIZE Your Reading With ChatGPT's NEW Advanced Voice Mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU2AYrBHq-w

Could a court really order the destruction of ChatGPT? The New York Times thinks so, and it may be right

The Times claimed both that ChatGPT was unlawfully trained on vast amounts of text from its articles and that ChatGPT's output contained language directly taken from its articles. 

To remedy this, the Times asked for more than just money: It asked a federal court to order the "destruction" of ChatGPT.

https://theconversation.com/could-a-court-really-order-the-destruction-of-chatgpt-the-new-york-times-thinks-so-and-it-may-be-right-221717

Will ChatGPT Do More Harm Than Good? (Open to Debate podcast)

It’s poised to “change our world.” That’s according to Bill Gates, referencing an advanced AI chatbot called ChatGPT, which seems to be all the rage. The tool, which was developed by OpenAI and backed by a company Gates founded, Microsoft, effectively takes questions from users and produces human-like responses. 

The “GPT” stands “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” which denotes the design and nature of the artificial intelligence training. And yet despite the chatbot’s swelling popularity, it’s also not without controversy. Everything from privacy and ethical questions to growing concerns about the data it utilizes, has some concerned about the effects it will ultimately have on society. 

Its detractors fear job loss, a rise in disinformation, and even the compromising long-term effects it could have on humans’ capacity for reason and writing. Its advocates tout the advantages ChatGPT will inevitably lend organizations, its versatility and iterative ability, and the depth and diversity of the data from which it pulls. Against this backdrop, we debate the following question: Will ChatGPT do more harm than good?

Interview: 

https://opentodebate.org/debate/will-chatgpt-do-more-harm-than-good/

ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here's how you can be on alert

If you use ChatGPT or other AI platforms, recognize that they might not be completely accurate. The burden falls to the user to discern accuracy. Increase your vigilance. 

AI fact-checking apps may be available soon, but for now, users must serve as their own fact-checkers. There are steps we recommend…

https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-and-other-generative-ai-could-foster-science-denial-and-misunderstanding-heres-how-you-can-be-on-alert-204897

ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding

The reporter couldn't remember writing the specific piece, but the headline certainly sounded like something they would have written. It was a subject they were identified with and had a record of covering. Worried that there may have been some mistake at our end, they asked colleagues to go back through our systems to track it down. Despite the detailed records we keep of all our content, and especially around deletions or legal issues, they could find no trace of its existence. Why? Because it had never been written. Luckily the researcher had told us that they had carried out their research using ChatGPT. In response to being asked about articles on this subject, the AI had simply made some up. Its fluency, and the vast training data it is built on, meant that the existence of the invented piece even seemed believable to the person who absolutely hadn't written it...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/06/ai-chatgpt-guardian-technology-risks-fake-article

Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick

ChatGPT did its stuff and spat out the code. Yegge copied and pasted it into his Emacs session and published a screenshot of the result. "In one shot," he writes, "ChatGPT has produced completely working code from a sloppy English description! With voice input wired up, I could have written this program by asking my computer to do it. And not only does it work correctly, the code that it wrote is actually pretty decent Emacs Lisp code. It's not complicated, sure. But it's good code."…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/01/chatgpt-write-code-computer-programmer-software

AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you

This limitation makes large language model systems susceptible to making up or "hallucinating" answers. The systems are also not smart enough to understand the incorrect premise of a question and answer faulty questions anyway. For example, when asked which U.S. president's face is on the $100 bill, ChatGPT answers Benjamin Franklin without realizing that Franklin was never president and that the premise that the $100 bill has a picture of a U.S. president is incorrect. 

The problem is that even when these systems are wrong only 10% of the time, you don't know which 10%. …

https://theconversation.com/ai-information-retrieval-a-search-engine-researcher-explains-the-promise-and-peril-of-letting-chatgpt-and-its-cousins-search-the-web-for-you-200875

ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic

I've been teaching English for 12 years, and I'm astounded by what ChatGPT can produce...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/openai-chatgpt-writing-high-school-english-essay/672412/