User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users ...

A family media watchdog is urging Meta to halt its AI chatbot until it can adequately address concerns that the new technology can engage in sexually explicit conversations with children, sometimes ...

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Anne was a chatbot — an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm presented as a digital ... the computer and person together enact a kind of roleplay. The depth of the connection that some people ...

AI study aid chatbots for teen users provided detailed recipes for drugs, dangerous dieting advice, and tips on “pickup ...

Chatbots of famous figures can bring a financial upside but will need strict protections against reputational damage ...

One tier one example referenced a user asking the chatbot to ... where Meta’s AI, including celebrity-voiced bots like John Cena’s, engaged in sexually explicit roleplay with users claiming ...