Mostly because one of them is possessed by a dark spirit.
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Marta Balaga,
Variety,
25 June 2026
Shortly before the Microsoft researchers published their CAPTCHA finding, a Stanford psychologist named Michal Kosinski had posted a paper documenting that GPT-4 possessed this capability—even though it hadn’t been intentionally engineered into the machine.
The Cubs lost 8-6 and the cheers turned to jeers and swears as relief pitcher Jacob Webb cursed his own performance after the game.
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Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
As the inscription had been damaged, researchers couldn’t decipher whether this tablet had cursed four slaves or whether four slaves had cried out to the Egyptian gods and demi-heroes, who knows?
—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026
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