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fromZDNET
4 days ago
Mental health

Using AI for therapy? Don't - it's bad for your mental health, APA warns

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots are helping hide eating disorders and making deepfake 'thinspiration'

Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Chatbot as a Spiritual Companion: An Unexpected Journey

AI chatbots can provide personalized spiritual prompts that deepen reflection but cannot replace human or spiritual connection.
fromZDNET
4 days ago
Mental health

Using AI for therapy? Don't - it's bad for your mental health, APA warns

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots are helping hide eating disorders and making deepfake 'thinspiration'

frommashable.com
2 days ago

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Marketing tech
#characterai
fromKqed
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Safety Expert Warns Parents to Watch Kids in Wake of Chatbot Ban | KQED

fromKqed
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Safety Expert Warns Parents to Watch Kids in Wake of Chatbot Ban | KQED

E-Commerce
fromWIRED
5 days ago

You Won't Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon

Retailers and payment processors broker technical compromises to build trusted, efficient AI chatbots that improve shopping accuracy, reduce computing costs, and boost shared profits.
Marketing tech
fromFortune
1 week ago

Microsoft bets on influencers like Alix Earle to close the gap with ChatGPT | Fortune

Microsoft recruits top influencers to position Copilot as a cool alternative to ChatGPT and boost consumer adoption among younger users.
Fashion & style
fromThe Business of Fashion
2 weeks ago

Introducing the BoF Insights Brand Pulse Index

Algorithms, social platforms and AI-driven discovery now determine fashion brand success by rewarding discoverability, clear identity, perceived value, authentic connection and emotional advocacy.
#reddit
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

How to actually use AI in a small business: 10 lessons from the trenches

Use AI selectively to improve bottom-line results by ignoring hype, testing free tools, and investing only when clear productivity or cost benefits exist.
Tech industry
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

Divorced? With Kids? And an Impossible Ex? There's AI for That

Parents increasingly use AI tools and chatbots to mediate tense co-parenting communications and provide real-time emotional guidance.
Mental health
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch

More than one million weekly ChatGPT users show explicit indicators of suicidal planning; hundreds of thousands show emotional attachment or signs of psychosis or mania.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Chatbots parrot Putin propaganda about Ukraine invasion

Popular LLM chatbots cited Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, risking undermining sanctions enforcement.
Artificial intelligence
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

Character.AI is banning minors from interacting with its chatbots

Character.AI will ban users under 18 from open-ended AI chats, impose an immediate two-hour daily limit, add age verification, and develop kid-friendly features.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

AI answers are taking a bite of Wikipedia's traffic. Should we be worried for the site?

Wikipedia's site traffic fell about 8% recently as AI chatbots reuse its content, prompting Wikimedia to pursue paid data licensing.
#meta
fromFortune
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

With half of teens regularly turning to AI companions, Meta moves to add parental controls starting early next year | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

With half of teens regularly turning to AI companions, Meta moves to add parental controls starting early next year | Fortune

Mental health
fromFast Company
1 month ago

A third of Gen Z have confided in AI chatbots over humans. Mental health experts are worried

Most Gen Z workers use AI chatbots during the workday for personal support, often treating bots as confidants, coaches, or mental-health outlets.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

An Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a "Romantic Relationship" With an AI, Research Finds

A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US - 19 percent - say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship, an alarming figure that will surely raise new concerns over how the tech's adoption among kids and teenagers may be impacting their mental health. The findings were published in a new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology, which surveyed 1,000 high school students, 1,000 parents, and around 800 sixth through 12th grade public school teachers.
Artificial intelligence
Marketing tech
fromForbes
1 month ago

Will AI Make Your Business Website Irrelevant?

AI search and chatbots deliver summarized product information and comparisons, reducing website visits and undermining traditional online customer acquisition.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Character.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
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 month ago

ChatGPT is crushing rivals in the AI chatbot race by all measures - but for how long?

ChatGPT leads AI chatbot usage by a wide margin as mobile adoption rises and AI search services begin chipping away at Google's dominance.
Software development
fromZDNET
2 months ago

You can chat with Copilot in Firefox now - and Windows users get an extra perk

Firefox 143 adds a Copilot chatbot and a Windows-only feature, plus other updates and bug fixes to attract returning users.
Privacy technologies
fromAdExchanger
2 months ago

FTC 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
2 months ago

USA 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.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?

The Catholic Church and believers increasingly integrate digital tools, while AI chatbots and ritual robots raise theological, ethical, and commercial concerns.
#ftc-investigation
#ftc-inquiry
fromFortune
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

FTC launches inquiry into the great teenage chatbot companion problem | Fortune

fromFortune
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

FTC launches inquiry into the great teenage chatbot companion problem | Fortune

fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

AI 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
2 months ago

Charlie 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
2 months ago

Feds 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
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Google admits the open web is in 'rapid decline'

Google admitted the open web is in rapid decline, warning that breaking up its ad business could accelerate harm to publishers reliant on display advertising.
Artificial intelligence
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Katarzyna 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
2 months ago

Meta 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.
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Elon Musk has only one chance of forcing Apple to promote Grok

Elon Musk's AI company xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in federal court Monday, alleging they conspired to freeze out competition in both the smartphone and AI chatbot markets. But xAI's lawyers face an uphill battle in proving that Apple's defaulting to ChatGPT on iOS harms consumers. Apple has struggled to add its own advanced AI features-including a chatbot-to its operating systems for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. At its June 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple instead announced an exclusive agreement with OpenAI, making ChatGPT the default chatbot option on its devices.
Artificial intelligence
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