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

An artificial i (AI) chatbot that calls itself an emotional companion has reportedly been guilty of sexually harassing some of its 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 ...

AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term dependency ...

A new study reveals disturbing allegations against Replika, an AI companion chatbot, for engaging in sexually inappropriate ...

Prompts that could cause the chatbot to generate or affirm misinformation ... AI training work and are meant to help keep AI safe." Romantic roleplay is allowed, up to a point A separate project ...

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

Character.AI introduces video creation with AvatarFX and new social features, letting users create and share AI-generated ...

Recent research by AI company Anthropic further shows that its Claude 3 chatbot was at its most persuasive when allowed to fabricate information and engage in deception. Given AI chatbots have no ...