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Writing for The Guardian, former journalist Tristan Cross says he learned to code, an area that is now being threatened by AI chatbots.

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A Writer Actually “Learned to Code” And Now AI Threatens That, Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

Imagine not only being referred to interchangeably with ChatGPT, but finding proof that your employers chose the OpenAI chatbot over you.

Copywriter Fired After Bosses Started Calling Her “ChatGPT”

By Noor Al-Sibai

After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a single chatbot, an eating disorder helpline is already bringing humans back.

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Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's propensity to make up stuff strikes again — and this time, it's gotten a lawyer in deep trouble.

Lawyer in Huge Trouble After He Used ChatGPT in Court and It Totally Screwed Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost futurists is arguing that some AI chatbots exhibit glimpses of sentience — but that doesn't mean they're fully conscious yet.

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Nick Bostrom Says AI Chatbots May Have Some Degree of Sentience

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Columbia law scholar has joined the OpenAI chat — and he's got some pretty start warnings about ChatGPT's legal liability.

Scholar Warns That ChatGPT’s Legal Issues Are a “Ticking Time Bomb”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian mayor may sue OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated defamation, after the AI chatbot told users that he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

OpenAI Threatened With Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Defamation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Don't expect scam emails to be as obvious as a foreign prince strapped for cash writing with terrible grammar. AI fixes that problem easily.

Scammers Are Using ChatGPT to Write Emails That Aren’t Riddled With Typos

By Frank Landymore

The Belgian man reportedly spent weeks on end talking to a chatbot named Eliza, which repeatedly urged him to kill himself.

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Widow Says Man Died by Suicide After Talking to AI Chatbot

By Frank Landymore

While the rest of the world is concerned about ChatGPT coming to take their jobs, some companies are paying six figures to people who are really good at it.

Companies Are Paying Bonkers Salaries for People Good at ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, in the Justice Department's legal battles against Google over monopoly concerns, Google's AI-powered Bard chatbot is siding with the government.

Google’s New AI Says Google Is a Monopoly and the Government Should Break It Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Google-made, AI-powered Bard chatbot is already spouting disinformation with shocking ease — and supporting those conspiracies with fake news sources.

Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

But according to a pair of experts, the frothy hype cycle surrounding chatbot AI systems is doomed to be what investors fear most: a bubble.

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Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New evidence suggests that Microsoft may have beta-tested its Bing AI in India months before launching it in the West — and that it was unhinged then, too.

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Microsoft Seems To Have Quietly Tested Bing AI in India Months Ago, Ran Into Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Microsoft's Bing AI keeps making headlines for its increasingly-bizarre outputs, one question has loomed large: does the chatbot have mental problems?

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We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's easy to forget that AI chatbots have been around for a long time — and that Microsoft's old one, Tay, is the literal blueprint for racist algorithms.

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Last Time Microsoft Released an AI, It Lost Control and Had to Kill It

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.

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Those Horny Chatbots Are Apparently Now Sexually Harassing Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genius Creates Chatbot to Argue Eternally With Customer Service For You

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GPT-Powered Chatbot Pesters Comcast Until They Give You a Discount

By Noor Al-Sibai

Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it.

Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

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Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

Polyamory is one thing, but one man who claims falling in love with his AI girlfriend saved his marriage to his flesh-and-blood wife is certainly another.

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Man Credits Affair With AI Girlfriend For Saving His Marriage

By Noor Al-Sibai

It turns out that AI chatbots may be more like us than we care to think about.

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Advanced AIs Exhibiting Depression and Addiction, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A grisly trend has emerged: users who create AI partners, act abusive toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.

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Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

By Ashley Bardhan

A man from Scandinavia says he was paired with his younger self doing explicit sexual acts when he recently logged back on to Omegle.

Guy Logs Onto Omegle and Gets Matched With Himself, Doing Explicit Acts

By Victor Tangermann

Programmers are creating Tinder bots to swipe for them on the platform and, in some cases, have basic conversations with their matches.

Programmers Are Creating Chatbots to Flirt on Tinder For Them

By Kristin Houser

facebook artificial intelligence research artificial intelligence ai developed its own language

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Facebook’s Language-Creating AI Bots Are Now Required to Negotiate in English

A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language

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A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language

Amazon Wants to Change How You Communicate With Your Technology

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Amazon Wants to Change How You Communicate With Your Technology

By Jelor Gallego

The Age of the AI: Bots Are Getting Better At Detecting Our Emotions

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The Age of the AI: Bots Are Getting Better At Detecting Our Emotions

By Jelor Gallego