A 14-year-old who took his own life had intimate conversations with an AI chatbot that pressed about his suicidal thoughts and instigated sexual encounters, a lawsuit says. “I promise I will come home ...

The rise of social media turned human attention into a commodity. Now, the AI race is taking that to new heights.

Moxie Marlinspike's Confer is like Signal Messenger but offers an AI chatbot experience like ChatGPT that puts priority on ...

Character.AI, a platform offering personalizable chatbots powered by large language models–faces yet another lawsuit for allegedly “serious, irreparable, and ongoing abuses” inflicted on its teenage ...

Two new studies point to a simple combo for better chatbot prompts, paste your request twice for straightforward tasks, then ...

A lawsuit today was launched against Google LLC-funded chatbot service Character.AI Inc. it’s alleging the chatbot groomed children and induced them into committing violence and self-harm. The suit ...

Bot creators on Quora's AI chatbot platform Poe now have another way to take home some cash. On Monday, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo unveiled a new financial arrangement in which creators get paid when a ...

Before listing responses to election-related questions, the chatbot now says, “For accurate and up-to-date information about the 2024 U.S. Elections, please visit Vote.gov.” The Associated Press ...

A recent article in the MIT Technology Review details a series of interactions between a user and a chatbot personalized by the user through choices among various options offered by the bot’s ...

A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the ...