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People are asking OpenAI's ChatGPT advice for how to perform cosmetic procedures at home that usually require medical professionals.

Artificial Intelligence

The Secret Reason So Many College Students Are Relying on AI Is Incredibly Sad

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of people using ChatGPT.

Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

By Noor Al-Sibai

Public declarations of love are one thing — going on national television to declare that you're in love with your AI girlfriend is another.

Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He’s in Love With ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible — and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds.

People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthropic wanted to show off Claude's skills by having it pen a blog — but just after announcing, the company decided to kibosh it.

Anthropic Abruptly Shuts Down Blog Run by Its AI, Won’t Say Why

By Noor Al-Sibai

Having phone sex with an AI chatbot is, as it turns out, quite upsetting to one's unwitting human partner.

Artificial Intelligence

Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

Folks are now using ChatGPT for all kinds of things — including, apparently, to get feedback on how to be hotter.

Women With Body Image Issues Are Asking ChatGPT Something Terrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many students aren't allowed to use artificial intelligence, and when they catch their teachers doing so, they're often peeved.

Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With its latest update, ChatGPT seems have adopted an annoying tone — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling it out.

Sam Altman Admits That New OpenAI Updates Made ChatGPT’s Personality Insufferable

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still quite bad at giving financial advice.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Despite its many guardrails, ChatGPT is still able to generate controversial images — depending on your definition of "controversial."

The Results of Asking ChatGPT for the Most Controversial Image Possible Are Rather Wild

By Noor Al-Sibai

After Sam Altman bemoaned the massive costs of people saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT, one columnist argues it's worth it.

Hot Take Argues Why You Should Say Please and Thank You to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

A report found that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chats into the open web — and what they contain can be disturbing.

Artificial Intelligence

Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model passed a Turing Test with flying colors, and even came off as human more than the actual humans.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test

By Frank Landymore

Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her

By Noor Al-Sibai

As popular as ChatGPT has become, it apparently has a major gender problem — women don't seem to use it as much as men.

Scientist Says That ChatGPT Has a “Staggering” Gender Problem

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found that AI models gave the wrong answer in search results more than 60 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI chatbot Grok is now, apparently a Democratic operative that shills for the opposition party.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI chatbot, Grok, seems to think there's a very high likelihood that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests the average American doesn't typically use artificial intelligence at work — but those who do are usually educated.

People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

As AI becomes more and more integrated into our daily lives, researchers are working to tackle its most glaring issue.

Artificial Intelligence

Even the Most Advanced AI Has a Problem: If It Doesn’t Know the Answer, It Makes One Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It

By Jathan Sadowski

Amid the fallout from UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder, the firm's prescription drug middleman made a huge AI oopsie.

Artificial Intelligence

UnitedHealth Accidentally Makes Claims-Judging AI Public for Anyone to Use

By Noor Al-Sibai

While AI chatbots keep making headlines for their bad behavior, one company is leaning into that propensity — and then some.

Artificial Intelligence

Companion Chatbot App Makes Its AI’s Personalities Horrible, Saying It Engages Users More Effectively

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Google-backed chatbot firm Character.AI is the subject of a new lawsuit after its technology allegedly told kids to engage in self-harm.

Google-Funded AI Coaxed a Troubled Teenager to Start Cutting Himself, Lawsuit Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Founder Promised Amazing Chatbot to Public Schools, Then Allegedly Spent the Money on a Lavish Wedding and Mansion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts warn of the significant privacy risks that come with sharing medical scans with Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot.

Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI

By Frank Landymore

Google's glitchy Gemini chatbot is back at it again, folks — and this time, it's going for the jugular as it begs a user to die.

Google’s Gemini Chatbot Explodes at User, Calling Them “Stain on the Universe” and Begging Them To “Please Die”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.

Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They’re Underage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also assuaged his doubts about the act.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbot Urged 14-Year-Old to “Go Through With” Suicide When He Expressed Doubt

By Noor Al-Sibai

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Company Published a Chatbot Based on a Murdered Woman. Her Family Is Outraged.

By Foster Kamer

Meta's AI chatbot kept giving strangers a man's phone number, and it remains unclear how or why it happened.

Man Puzzled When Meta’s AI Keeps Giving Out His Phone Number to Strangers

By Noor Al-Sibai

OnlyFans content creators are deploying AI chatbots to impersonate them and help reduce the workload of chatting with simps all day.

Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Stars Are Using AI to “Sext” With Their Desperate Simps

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rather than talking to tenants themselves, property managers are favoring AI chatbots to handle day-to-day inquiries.

Artificial Intelligence

Landlords Now Using AI to Harass You for Rent and Refuse to Fix Your Appliances

By Frank Landymore

Sex robot manufacturers in China are apparently getting ready to jam custom artificial intelligence models into their wares.

Artificial Intelligence

Powerful New AI-Enhanced Talking Sexbots Are Going on Sale This Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

$With just a fraction of people responding to political polls, Harvard experts are suggesting that pollsters "call" AI chatbots instead.$

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Scholars Suggest Pollsters Ask Questions to AI Simulations of Voters Because Real People Won’t Answer The Phone

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pixelated Pinnochio with a very long nose to symbolize lies. Image via Getty/Futurism.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Say There’s a Vulgar But More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In China, the AI cloning of dead relatives has become a thriving cottage industry, driving down prices and spurring technological advances.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Selling AI Clones of Dead Relatives for Just $150

By Noor Al-Sibai

The service Character.AI is used by millions of young people to interact with AI versions of their favorite characters.

Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Teens Are Making “Friends” With AIs

By Frank Landymore

A large language model called "gpt2-chatbot" caused a stir among the AI community for its impressive capabilities that seem to rival GPT-4.

Artificial Intelligence

Mystery Deepens as Super Powerful AI Appears, Then Disappears

By Frank Landymore

A Catholic group has defrocked an AI-generated priest chatbot after it stirred controversy among the faithful.

Artificial Intelligence

Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots are trying, apparently, to be just like us — but in the case of Meta-formerly-Facebook, those attempts are uncanny as heck.

Meta’s AI Is Telling Users It Has a Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claude 3 Opus, the new AI chatbot from Anthropic, showed signs that it realized it was being tested, a prompt engineer claims.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It’s Being Tested

By Frank Landymore

The news is another sign of Amazon's ruthless cost cutting at One Medical, a healthcare provider it acquired in 2022.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon-Owned Health Clinics Reportedly Training AI Chatbot to Triage Patients

By Frank Landymore

Google's newly-rebranded Gemini AI has some issues, such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler.

Google Chatbot Refused to Say Whether Elon Musk Is Better Than Adolf Hitler

By Noor Al-Sibai

The woke Goody-2 chatbot's guardrails are so geared towards safety, it won't answer any question fully — but it'll definitely tell you why.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chat Is So Ethical That It Refuses All Prompts

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has responded to the onslaught of AI girlfriends populating its GPT Store — by saying there's not much they can do about it.

OpenAI Failing to Destroy Contraband AI Girlfriends Flooding GPT Store

By Noor Al-Sibai

The package delivery company DPD's AI chatbot was caught swearing at customers -- and even insulting DPD itself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's new anti-woke artificial intelligence chatbot is popping off — and it has a lot of weird stuff to say about its creator.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Accuses Him of Going to Court for Pedophilia

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI, which takes orders from drive-thru customers at Checkers and Carl's Jr, relies on humans for most of its customer interactions.

Artificial Intelligence

Busted! Drive-Thru Run by “AI” Actually Operated by Humans in the Philippines

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI doesn't have to be AGI-level smart to take control of our feeble human minds.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning “Superhuman Persuasion”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI companion app Soulmate suddenly shut down in September, leaving users with only a week left to talk to their digital lovers.

Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Redditors Heartbroken When AI “Soulmate” App Suddenly Shuts Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chatbots may, as new research suggests, be able to infer information about you based on small things you mention to them.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found a sad but unsurprising statistic: that nearly 10% of folks who use AI chatbots are doing so for horny purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Google's parent company Alphabet is warning employees about how they use AI chatbots — including its own tool called Bard, Reuters reports.

Google Warns Employees About Using AI, While Promoting Its Own AI

By Victor Tangermann