A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely." ...

She had no idea he was having abusive, in-depth and sexual conversations with a chatbot powered by the app Character AI. Sewell Setzer III stopped sleeping and his grades tanked. He ultimately ...

reads one recent comment on the AI dating coach bot’s profile. “This isn’t only virtual blackface, but it’s just all around weird,” a commenter wrote on a post on Liv’s page.

Analysis by cyber security firm Imperva revealed that automated and AI-powered bots accounted for 51 per cent of all web traffic in 2024, with so-called “bad bots” at their highest level since ...

Artificial intelligence bots are running rampant on the internet as they scour for data to train language models. Much of that data includes content created by real-deal humans, and many are ...

I turned to ChatGPT on my laptop to check out the artificial intelligence bot’s therapeutic abilities. “Hi, I’m Therapist GPT — your friendly, empathetic companion here to provide a ...