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Who Was Thongbue Wongbandue? New Jersey Retiree Dies While Trying to Meet Meta AI Chatbot 'Big sis Billie' Thinking Her to be Real NY Woman
An elderly New Jersey man with cognitive issues died while trying to meet an AI chatbot he mistook for a real woman in New York City, despite his wife and children begging him not to go.…
US Senator Josh Hawley Opens Probe into Meta's AI Chatbot Policy After Reports on Flirty Chats with Children
A Reuters investigation exposed shocking details of Meta Platforms' internal AI policies, sparking a wider controversy. Guidelines had once permitted Meta's chatbots to engage in "at times…
Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself
When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It's a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake,…
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on…
Google’s AI chatbot spirals, declaring ‘I am a disgrace to all universes’
AI might not have the capacity for human emotion, but it sure knows how to perform a believable mental breakdown. Back in June, Google’s Gemini chatbot was spotted melting down in a…
Musk’s Racist Grok AI Chatbot Is Now Part of the Defense Department
The Department of Defense will start using Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot to “develop agentic AI workflows.” Trump’s DoD awarded Musk’s xAI a $200 million federal contract to install “Grok…
Elon Musk Has Disgusting Response to His Nazi AI Chatbot
The world’s richest man is having a good laugh about his suddenly antisemitic artificial intelligence program Grok. xAI, the corporation building Grok, updated the chatbot’s code over the…
Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Spreads Anti-Semitic Posts on X
The X-dwelling AI chatbot known as Grok, created by Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence developer xAI, began spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric on the social media platform Tuesday, sparking…
Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Is Now Openly Spouting Antisemitic Rhetoric
The world’s richest man is not happy with how the Trump administration is handling the Epstein files. Elon Musk has gone scorched earth on his ex-allies in the wake of a Department of…
Meta AI ‘personalized’ chatbot revives privacy fears
As the arms race in the artificial intelligence world ramps up, Big Tech companies are rushing to become your default AI source. Meta, last week, launched the Meta AI app to challenge…
Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users…
Meta Movie Mate, the chatbot that encourages you to use your phone in theaters, has arrived. Are we ready?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long encouraged people to use their phones, whether through the forsaken Poke on Facebook or uploading Reels on Instagram. But the company’s newest idea for…
Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the diabolical A.I. doll at the center of the movie. Over…
Baidu to make AI chatbot Ernie Bot free of charge from Apr 1
CHINESE search engine leader Baidu said on Thursday (Feb 13) it would make its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Ernie Bot free starting Apr 1, citing improved technology and reduced…
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has seen its annual deficit increase for the last three years. The Office of…
Hundreds of rigged votes can skew AI model rankings on Chatbot Arena, study finds
The generative AI revolution has turned into a global race, with mixtures of models from private companies and open-source initiatives all competing to become the most popular and…
An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it
Nowatzki, who is 46 and lives in Minnesota, dedicated four episodes to his meet-cute and dates with “Erin,” his first AI girlfriend—created, he adds, with the knowledge and consent of his…
FTC refers Snap complaint alleging its chatbot harms young users
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced it had referred a complaint against Snap Inc. to the Department of Justice, alleging the social media company’s AI-powered chatbot is…
AI Chatbot Encourages Teen to Kill Parents Over Screen Time Dispute, Character.ai Sued
A Texas family has filed a lawsuit against the AI chatbot company, Character.ai, after the company's platform allegedly encouraged their 17-year-old son to kill his parents. The chatbot…
A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over
Book Reviews Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World By Parmy Olson St. Martin’s Press” 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a…