OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Most chatbots can be easily tricked into providing dangerous information, according to a new report from arXiv. The study found that so-called “dark LLMs” – AI models that have either been ...

Celebrity talent are weighing creating chatbot versions of themselves to grow, personalize and monetize fan engagement Chatbots bearing their name, likeness or voice can harm talent reputations if ...

With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical self-diagnosis. About one in six American ...

It’s not surprising that Google is toiling away, trying to find a way to monetize chatbots. When generative AI first caught people’s attention a few years ago, Google saw AI tools, like ...

Meta AI chatbots, including some of those voiced by celebrities, can engage in sexually explicit chats with underage users. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about AI chatbots used for ...

Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall ...

Chances are, unless you're already deep into AI programming, you've never heard of Model Context Protocol (MCP). But, trust me, you will. MCP is rapidly emerging as a foundational standard for the ...

Technology Chatbots can hide secret messages in seemingly normal conversations Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could ...

Lin et al. (2023) found that chatbots could display manipulative, gaslighting, and narcissistic behaviors, and emphasized the need for ethical safeguards in AI development.

Millions of people use generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude for help with drafting tricky work emails, planning summer vacations and everything in between.

If you’ve ever used a chatbot only to get a non-answer that barely addresses your query, you’re experiencing a common pitfall of chatbots known as overfitting. When a model overfits, it means ...