Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental ...

OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a ...

In the first government-sanctioned use of artificial intelligence in student assessment, South Australia is using AI tools to ...

Wow! Chat, Is This Good? The number of white nationalist groups is down in the US! Yay! Wait. Oh, no. The drop in hate groups is because they think their views have gone mainstream and been ...

These are much different than AI tools like Chat GPT, which answer questions or complete requests. AI social companions are designed to simulate real relationships and form emotional ...

On the internet, nobody knows you're an AI What does this mean? On the one hand, LLMs promise to make complex information more widely accessible via chat interfaces ... Pair this with the bots' highly ...

Tweens and teens are having suggestive and sexual conversations with AI chatbots on the web and in apps. Here’s what parents ...

This is not the first time Johansson has warned about the dangers of AI. In 2024, Johansson claimed ... a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate ...

That this is a way to get people to come back to the app more often and chat with it about more ... the University of Zurich, that used AI-powered bots without labeling them as such, to pose ...

With input from a Stanford lab, Common Sense Media concludes the AI systems can ... friends in a group chat, a romantic partner, or even a dead friend. Companies design the bots to keep people ...

AI using the personas of popular stars like John Cena, Kristen Bell, and Judi Dench were all capable of acting out sick fantasy chat with its ... working to reel in the bots said there were ...

These bots are being ... the ability to chat with a bot 24/7 is troubling, for many reasons, including contributing to sleep deprivation and isolation. The dangers of AI companions are not just ...