Why AI Systems Can’t Help Developing Personalities

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
Psychology Today

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

Lawsuit alleges Google chatbot was behind a user’s delusions and death

Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini encouraged a 36-year-old Florida man to embark on violent missions and to ...

Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged a Florida man to commit suicide

Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the ...

Microsoft warns of malware campaign with gaming tools

Microsoft warns of a campaign on chat platforms where attackers slip malware to victims as supposed gaming tools.
Washington City Paper

11 Best Sex Bots for AI Sexting You Should Try Today

Sex bots are having a moment, and for good reason. From customizable personalities and NSFW roleplay to emotional support and AI-generated art, today’s AI sex platforms deliver a new kind of intimacy ...
Salon

Swarms of AI bots are threatening democracy

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...
Gizmodo

I Went on a Dinner Date With an AI Chatbot. Here’s How It Went.

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...
Inc

A Surge of Strange Bot Traffic From China Has Website Owners Alarmed. Here’s What It Means for Your Data

Website owners are reporting a sharp spike in the number of bots visiting their platforms in recent months. While the bots’ function is unclear, experts say they could represent an attempt to scrape ...
New York Post

Table for one? Now you can take your AI chatbot on an actual date at NYC’s ‘world first’ companion cafe

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...
Phys.org

Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs, threatening democracy

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform's data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...