In November, a team of researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund published a report after testing three different toys powered by AI models: Miko 3, Curio's Grok, and FoloToy's Kumma. All of them gave responses that should worry a parent, such as discussing the glory of dying in battle, broaching sensitive topics like religion, and explaining where to find matches and plastic bags.
A study conducted by Penn State University researchers found that rude prompts triggered better results than polite ones. In a paper titled "Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy," as spotted by Fortune, researchers Om Dobariya and Akhil Kumar set out to determine how the tone of a prompt affects the response. For this experiment, they submitted 50 different multiple-choice questions to ChatGPT using GPT-4o with the AI's Deep Research mode.
The Australian Financial Review reports that Deloitte Australia will offer the Australian government a partial refund for a report that was littered with AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research. Deloitte's "Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review" was finalized in July and published by Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) in August ( Internet Archive version of the original).
