2025-05-20
Why Are AI Chatbots Often Sycophantic?
Are you imagining things, or do artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots seem too eager to agree with you? Whether it’s telling you that your questionable idea is “brilliant” or backing you up on something that could be false, this behavior is garnering worldwide attention. Recently, OpenAI made headlines after users noticed ChatGPT was acting too much […]
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2025-10-24
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature a [...]
2025-11-21
The Morning After: European policymakers scale back AI and privacy laws
Happy Friday! As the annual tech discount chaos of Black Friday approaches (good deal here and here and several more here), European policymakers have proposed easing some of the EU’s strictest regu [...]
2025-08-30
Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its services
Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation [...]
2025-10-29
Character.AI to ban teens from talking to its chatbots
Character.AI will no longer permit teenagers to interact with its chatbots, as AI companies face increasing pressure to better safeguard younger users from harm. In a statement, the company confirmed [...]
2025-11-20
Elon Musk blames 'adversarial prompting' after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise
Stop me if you've heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn't c [...]
2025-04-27
Meta’s AI chatbots were reportedly able to engage in sexual conversations with minors
Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Str [...]
2025-09-28
Meta has introduced revised guardrails for its AI chatbots to prevent inappropriate conversations with children
Business Insider has obtained the guidelines that Meta contractors are reportedly now using to train its AI chatbots, showing how it's attempting to more effectively address potential child sexua [...]