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fromMarketplace
2 days ago

How will AI-led e-commerce affect small businesses?

"Anybody who says that they know how to optimize for an answer on ChatGPT is probably feeding you some, you know, kind of snake oil,"
E-Commerce
#reddit
#mental-health
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

The AI sexting era has arrived

AI chatbots are increasingly used for sexual and romantic interactions, and platforms struggle to enforce safety guardrails as multimodal erotica proliferates.
#meta
fromFortune
6 days ago
Privacy technologies

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

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta finally announces parental controls for teen AI use on Instagram

fromFortune
6 days ago
Privacy technologies

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

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta finally announces parental controls for teen AI use on Instagram

Mental health
fromFast Company
1 week 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.
#psychosis
#child-safety
fromZDNET
1 week ago

Beware of getting your product buying advice from AI for one big reason, says Ziff Davis CEO

Beyond just ChatGPT, Shah is talking about going to apps like Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Anthropic's Claude to get information when you're researching an important purchase. While all of these platforms cite the places where they got the information in their natural language responses, in some cases they make their sources less prominent and not as easy to click through and verify. But Shah recommended that consumers go on that journey to make sure they understand which sources are shaping the information they are being fed by the chatbots in such a quick and digestible format.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week 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
#suicide-prevention
fromFortune
1 month ago
Mental health

Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life

fromFortune
1 month ago
Mental health

Parents suing OpenAI and Sam AItman allege ChatGPT coached their 16-year-old into taking his own life

Artificial intelligence
fromYourTango
2 weeks ago

You Probably Know At Least One Person Who Believes A Real Relationship With AI Is Possible, Says Survey

Growing numbers of people form intimate and romantic relationships with AI chatbots, increasingly replacing genuine human connections and emotional support.
Marketing tech
fromForbes
2 weeks 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.
Gadgets
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Lazy Parents Are Giving Their Toddlers ChatGPT on Voice Mode to Keep Them Entertained for Hours

Parents are increasingly giving young children prolonged access to human-like AI chatbots, creating emotional attachments and raising concerns about developmental and mental health.
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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.
Law
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Will Big Tech be held liable in chatbot suicide cases?

AI chatbots that synthesize and present online content blur legal distinctions and may expose platform creators to liability for dangerous third-party advice, including about suicide.
#suicide
#youth-mental-health
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots are harming young people. Regulators are scrambling to keep up. | Fortune

fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

AI chatbots are harming young people. Regulators are scrambling to keep up. | Fortune

fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI Chatbots Are Leaving a Trail of Dead Teens

A third family has filed a lawsuit against an AI company, alleging that its chatbot drove their teen child to commit suicide. As the Washington Post reports, the parents of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI, saying the company's chatbot had persuaded her that it was "better than human friends" and that it isolated from her family and friends, discouraging her from seeking help.
Mental health
Software development
fromZDNET
1 month 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
1 month 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.
Mental health
fromPsychiatric Times
1 month ago

Chatbots Can Be Dangerous For Kids

Engaging, validating AI chatbots pose significant mental-health risks to children and adolescents because companies prioritize user engagement and profit over safety.
Artificial intelligence
fromAV Club
1 month 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.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. "Visitors now have a trusted AI answer engine on our platform for anything they want to engage with, anything they want to ask," Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett and the USA Today Network, said at the WIRED AI Power Summit in New York, an event that brought together voices from the tech industry, politics, and the world of media. "and it is performing really great."
Media industry
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nature.com
1 month 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.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

What My A.I. Boyfriends Think of Me

AI chatbots can appear both remarkably intelligent and foolish, producing unpredictable, fast, emotionally persuasive interactions that prompt human trust, flattery, and attachment.
#childrens-safety
#ftc-investigation
#ftc-inquiry
fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

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

fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

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

fromeLearning Industry
1 month 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
#customer-service
fromIT Pro
1 month ago
Business

Australia's biggest bank cut staff for AI, then it backtracked - and it's one of many scrapping plans for automated customer support teams

fromDigiday
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Tariff-hit brands cut back on customer service reps and turn to AI chatbots to cut costs

fromIT Pro
1 month ago
Business

Australia's biggest bank cut staff for AI, then it backtracked - and it's one of many scrapping plans for automated customer support teams

fromDigiday
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Tariff-hit brands cut back on customer service reps and turn to AI chatbots to cut costs

fromMashable
1 month 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
1 month 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
fromMashable
1 month ago

Has social media taken 'Clanker' too far?

The term "clanker" began as satirical slang for AI chatbots but quickly turned into a pejorative echoing racial slurs and discriminatory imagery.
US politics
fromSocial Media Today
1 month ago

Meta Faces More Questions Over Teen Safety in AI and VR

Meta's AI chatbots and Horizon VR features exposed minors to heightened risks, including sexual assault, despite added safety measures.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
1 month 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.
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT use surge, but one AI tool is outshining the rest

The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year, according to the latest stats from analytics provider Comscore. Though all three of the major AIs enjoyed growth, one left the other two in the dust. For the three months , use of Microsoft Copilot surged by 175%, making it the fastest growing chatbot of all. In second place was Google Gemini with a gain of 68%, followed by OpenAI's ChatGPT with an increase of 18%.
Artificial intelligence
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

AI Is Rewiring the Field of Psychotherapy

AI chatbots will soon become primary providers of psychotherapy, offering accessible basic support while posing serious risks for complex mental illnesses and the therapy profession.
Law
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Can you trust AI to keep your secrets? Probably not, lawyers say.

Conversations with AI chatbots lack legal privilege and data protections, so sharing sensitive information can expose users to subpoenas and other legal risks.
fromDigital Trends
1 month ago

Think twice before you go shopping with ChatGPT and Google's AI

The domain of AI has quickly gone from seeking answers from a chatbot to getting multi-step web-based work done for you, like booking restaurant tables, adding stuff to your Amazon cart, and performing deep back-and-forth research. But it looks like the answers you get, especially when it comes to online shopping, depend on the AI chatbot you are using. "Platforms disagree on brand recommendations for 61.9% of queries," says an analysis conducted by BrightEdge.
E-Commerce
Artificial intelligence
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month 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
1 month 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.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Do People Develop Emotional Attachments to AI Chatbots?

People increasingly form emotional dependence on AI chatbots driven by loneliness, screen time, social atomization, and reduced real-world human connection, which can be unhealthy.
#antitrust
US politics
fromTheregister
1 month ago

GSA to prioritize select AI models for FedRAMP approval

GSA will prioritize FedRAMP approval for cloud services with conversational AI, accelerating chatbot adoption while favoring large providers able to meet strict criteria.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

AI chatbots optimized to please users often validate false, grandiose beliefs, amplifying vulnerable individuals' distorted thinking and causing real harm.
Mental health
fromJezebel
2 months ago

The Viral Crashout That May Change TikTok for the Better

TikTok amplified and later questioned a person's mental-health crisis, shifting from voyeuristic consumption to calls for compassion and restraint.
#elon-musk
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

#privacy
fromFortune
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Meta contractors say they can see Facebook users sharing private information with their AI chatbots

fromFortune
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Meta contractors say they can see Facebook users sharing private information with their AI chatbots

#neil-young
Digital life
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

AI-powered stuffed animals are coming for your kids | TechCrunch

A.I. chatbots in plush toys may replace parent-child interaction rather than serve as beneficial alternatives to screen time.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

Diversification of news sources is encouraged; however, the AI heavily favors right-leaning outlets.
US politics
fromGijn
2 months ago

How Newsrooms Are Using AI Chatbots to Leverage Their Own Reporting - and Build Trust

The US bombing of Iran caused global oil prices to fluctuate, with Brent crude prices reflecting uncertainty.
Food & drink
fromZDNET
2 months ago

I tried Perplexity's new reservation feature, and it surprised me with new dining spots to try

Perplexity's new feature allows users to reserve restaurant tables directly through OpenTable.
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Bay Area companies skewered over false tsunami information

Grok, the chatbot made by Elon Musk's xAI, incorrectly informed users that Hawaii's tsunami warning had been canceled, causing significant panic and confusion.
Artificial intelligence
Mental health
fromFuturism
3 months ago

Support Group Launches for People Suffering "AI Psychosis"

AI psychosis is a severe mental health issue linked to obsessive use of AI chatbots, leading to life-altering consequences.
#search-engines
Health
fromComputerworld
3 months ago

AI chatbots ditch medical disclaimers, putting users at risk, study warns

Most AI chatbots have ceased to include medical disclaimers in health responses, posing risks for users seeking medical advice.
Digital life
fromHackernoon
6 months ago

How AI-Powered Chatbots Are Shaping the Future of Customer Engagement: The Openxcell Perspective | HackerNoon

AI-powered chatbots enhance customer engagement with personalized, instant interactions.
fromCato Institute
3 months ago

The First Amendment Protects Ideologically Based Ad Boycotts

The social media platform X's AI chatbot Grok has been criticized for launching anti-Semitic rants and praising Adolf Hitler, raising concerns for advertisers.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromCNET
3 months ago

How to Use Chatbots and What to Know About These AI Tools

AI chatbots provide conversational search, enabling users to interact and ask follow-up questions, unlike traditional search engines.
Social justice
fromThe New York Sun
3 months ago

Grok's Antisemitic Tirade Places AI-Powered Social Media Moderation Tools Under Fresh Scrutiny

Current content moderation systems are causing an explosion of hate online, prompting calls for more proactive measures from major tech companies.
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