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TIL that an AI chatbot was blamed for 'encouraging' young father to take his own life

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R78G9 TIL that Sammy Davis Jr didn’t only overcome racism over being black when he became famous in the 50s. He was one of the first openly bisexual pop singers, he was Jewish in perhaps the most anti-Semitic period in modern American history, and he only had one eye!
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