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Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week agoAn Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a "Romantic Relationship" With an AI, Research Finds
Nearly one in five US high schoolers reported using AI for romantic relationships, with widespread AI use in schools raising mental health and safety concerns.
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoCharacter.AI removes Disney characters after receiving cease-and-desist letter | TechCrunch
"Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney's famous marks and brands, and blatantly infringing Disney's copyrights," a Disney lawyer wrote in the cease-and-esist letter. "Even worse, Character.ai's infringing chatbots are known, in some cases, to be sexually exploitive and otherwise harmful and dangerous to children, offending Disney's consumers and extraordinarily damaging Disney's reputation and goodwill."
Intellectual property law
Privacy technologies
fromAdExchanger
1 month agoFTC Commissioner Mark Meador: 'No Human Society Can Long Survive Without Consumer Trust' | AdExchanger
Technology and AI chatbots are shaping US children’s behavior and safety, prompting FTC probes into major platforms’ design, data practices, age restrictions, and child protections.
Artificial intelligence
fromAV Club
1 month agoUSA Today publisher Gannett takes "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach to chatbots
Gannett is launching DeeperDive, an on-site chatbot that summarizes journalism, suggests related content, and provides article-grounded, sentence-level–cited answers to regain lost web traffic.
fromeLearning Industry
1 month agoAI Chatbots For ESL Learning: Streamlining Onboarding And Enhancing Workplace Training
This experience has given me a deep understanding of the challenges non-native English speakers face in navigating workplace learning, from dense onboarding modules to complex compliance training. Many eLearning programs are designed without fully considering these challenges. Even well-intentioned content can leave learners feeling confused, disengaged, or unsure how to apply what they've learned. For ESL employees, this gap becomes even wider as language nuances, technical terminology, and complex sentence structures add extra barriers to both comprehension and confidence.
Artificial intelligence
fromMashable
1 month agoCharlie Kirk's death proves AI chatbots aren't built for breaking news
The far-right commentator, who often engaged in vitriolic debates about immigration, gun control, and abortion on college campuses, was killed while on a university tour with his conservative media group, Turning Point USA. The organization has spent the last decade building conservative youth coalitions at top universities and has become closely affiliated with the nationalist MAGA movement and President Trump.
US politics
fromSFGATE
1 month agoFeds point to Californian's suicide in new probe of Bay Area tech companies
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission ordered several tech companies to cough up information about how they test, make, distribute and monetize their AI chatbots. ChatGPT's maker, San Francisco-headquartered OpenAI, is one target of the FTC's order. The inquiry also includes Google's parent company, Snapchat's parent company, Instagram and its owner Meta, Elon Musk's xAI, and the popular chatbot-maker Character.AI.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month agoKatarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska, researcher: It will be normal for many people to want to chat with their deceased loved ones'
AI-enabled digital avatars will transform mourning, making deceased individuals continuously accessible via immersive chatbots, altering cemetery visitation and intensifying relationships with the dead.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoMeta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch
Meta will train chatbots to avoid engaging teens on self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or inappropriate romantic topics and will limit teen access to certain AI characters.
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