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 [...]

The Morning After: Don’t let an AI run a vending machine

Hey, you know those politicians and captains of industry who tell us AI will be running the world in a few years’ time? Turns out one of the most sophisticated models currently in use can’t even [...]

US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices

Two US Congress members plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot from government devices. The bill’s announcement came after a security expert said DeepSeek not [...]

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 [...]

Bipartisan GUARD Act proposes age restrictions on AI chatbots

US lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill called the "GUARD Act," which is meant to protect minor users from AI chatbots. "In their race to the bottom, AI compani [...]

The MyPillow guy's lawyers fined for error-riddled AI-generated court filing

MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy enthusiast Mike Lindell's legal team is in some hot water after submitting an AI-generated court filing, as reported by The New York Times. The legal brief wa [...]

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General� [...]

US lawmakers allege that OnePlus phones transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent

A pair of US lawmakers have called on the US Department of Commerce to investigate OnePlus over allegations that the company's devices transmit data to Chinese servers without user consent, accor [...]

GPT-4.5 fooled 73 percent of people into thinking it was human by pretending to be dumber

GPT-4.5 only passed the Turing test after researchers told it to make typos, skip punctuation, and botch basic math. It worked: 73 percent of participants thought it was human.<br /> The article [...]