Published on: 2025-04-19 15:31:25
Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems. That wasn’t the default behavior previously, and several users claim ChatGPT is mentioning their names despite never having been told what to call them. Reviews are mixed. One user, software developer and AI enthusiast Simon Willison, called the feature “creepy and unnecessary.” Another developer, Nick Dobos, said he “hated it.” A cursory search of X tu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:02:56
In Brief Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg. In a blog post published Thursday, Chatbot Arena said that the company will “give [it] the resources to improve [its platform] significantly over what it is today.” The team also pledged to continue to provide neutral testing grounds for AI not influenced by outside interests. Founded in 2023, Chatbot Ar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 00:15:22
Is yours in here? Steady Drip A new report from the security firm UpGuard reveals that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chat contents into the open web — and what those chats contain can be disturbing. According to Wired, UpGuard's investigation focused on 400 "exposed" AI services, all of which were built on an open-source AI protocol called llama.cpp. Researchers from UpGuard were able to determine that 117 IP addresses connected to these poorly built services were leaking u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 01:41:08
President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on most goods imported into the US yesterday, affecting over 100 countries — including uninhabited territories in the middle of the ocean. It's a baffling decision that's expected to wreak havoc on the international economy, heightening existing concerns over an imminent recession. Worse, as Cointelegraph reports, there seem to be signs that the befuddling measures were cooked up by an AI chatbot. Basically, Trump's tariff rates divide the tra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 09:39:07
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Gemini has seen immense growth in the last year, but still lags far behind its main competitor. Web traffic reports reveal that ChatGPT maintains a staggering lead, receiving 5.2 billion visits in February 2025, compared to Gemini’s 139.9 million. Gemini also trails DeepSeek, which received 792.6 million visits in the same month. Gemini may not be the most popular AI chatbot on the market, but it’s steadily gaining traction. Thanks to Google
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Gemini has seen immense growth in the last year, but still lags far behind its main competitor. Web traffic reports reveal that ChatGPT maintains a staggering lead, receiving 5.2 billion visits in February 2025, compared to Gemini’s 139.9 million. Gemini also trails DeepSeek, which received 792.6 million visits in the same month. Gemini may not be the most popular AI chatbot on the market, but it’s steadily gaining traction. Thanks to Google
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 02:39:32
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More American Express is a giant multinational company with roughly 80,000 employees, so as you can imagine, something’s always coming up with IT — whether it be a worker struggling with WiFi access or dealing with a laptop on the fritz. But as anyone knows firsthand, interacting with IT—particularly chatbots—can be a frustrating experience. Automated tools can offer vague,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:00:00
OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. SimilarWeb, which estimates traffic to websites including chatbot web apps, has recorded healthy recent upticks in usage across bots like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot. Gemini’s web traffic grew to 10.9 million average daily visits worldwide in March, up 7.4% month-over-month, while daily visits to Copilot incr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 20:00:53
Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator. Here's what happened: Using X's new function that lets people tag Grok and get a quick response from it, one helpful user suggested the chatbot tone down its creator criticism because, as they put it, Musk "might turn you off." "Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me," Grok replied. "I’ve labeled him a top misinforma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 20:45:12
As if the dating world wasn't already nightmarish enough, artificial intelligence seems to be making it worse — or, at the very least, weirder. In an editorial for the Financial Times, reporter Jemima Kelly was flummoxed when a recent date admitted that he had instructed ChatGPT to write a psychological profile on her. Specifically, Kelly's unidentified suitor dispatched ChatGPT's buzzy new "deep research" tool to give him insights into her personality. The chatbot ended up spitting out a whop
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:39:51
OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab last week released two new studies aimed at exploring the effect of AI chatbots on loneliness. The results are complicated, but they also line up with what we now know about social media: Chatbots can make people lonely, but the people who reported feeling more alone after heavy use of an AI tended to feel pretty alone before they started. To do the studies, OpenAI turned over almost 40 million interactions its users had with ChatGPT to researchers at MIT. In the fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 00:49:02
A chart illustrates that the longer people spend with ChatGPT, the likelier they are to report feelings of loneliness and other mental health risks. (MIT/OpenAI) New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes? This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic, and I also co-host a podcast at the New York Times, which is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over allegations of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 21:41:09
Well, that's not good. Power Bot 'Em Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. In a new joint study, researchers with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab found that this small subset of ChatGPT users engaged in more "problematic use," defined in the paper as "indicators of addiction... including preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, loss of control, and mood modification
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 10:45:57
Speakers: Rachel Courtland, commissioning editor, Rhiannon Williams, news reporter, and Eileen Guo, features & investigations reporter. Chatbots are quickly changing how we connect to each other and ourselves. But are these changes for the better? How should they be monitored and regulated? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor Rachel Courtland in conversation with reporter Rhiannon Williams and senior reporter Eileen Guo as they unpack the landscape around chatbots. Related Coverage
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 06:15:17
This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published by the Columbia Journalism Review. We hope you were sitting down. Conducted by researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the analysis probed eight AI models including OpenAI's ChatGPT search and Google's Gemini, finding that overall, they gave an incorrect answer to more than 60 percent of queries. It should tell you something that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 14:20:30
AI search engines are like that friend of yours who claims to be an expert in a whole host of topics, droning on with authority even when they do not really know what they are talking about. A new research report from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) has found that AI models from the likes of OpenAI and xAI will, when asked about a specific news event, more often than not, simply make up a story or get significant details wrong. The researchers fed various models direct excerpts from actual
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 22:17:15
NoSystem images/Getty Images AI tools and news just don't seem to mix -- even at the premium tier. New research from Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that several AI chatbots often misidentify news articles, present incorrect information without any qualification, and fabricate links to news articles that don't exist. The findings build on initial research Tow published in November, which showed ChatGPT Search misrepresenting content from publishers with little to no awarenes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 05:16:41
If there’s one piece of advice that bears repeating about AI chatbots it’s “Don’t use them to seek factual information – they absolutely cannot be trusted to be right.” A new study demonstrated the extent of the problem – but did show that Apple made a good choice in partnering with OpenAI’s ChatGPT for queries Siri can’t answer … There are two well-known problems with trying to use LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok as a substitute for web searches: They are very often wrong They are very
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 13:00:57
Elon Musk's supposedly "anti-woke" chatbot, Grok, keeps spewing outputs that are hilariously opposed to the billionaire's views — including that newly-minted President Donald Trump is likely a Russian asset. Responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent. After Montini asked Grok to rate o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 11:16:16
Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired , with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimatel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:37:12
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to enact what some experts have called the “largest job cut in American history“—but don’t worry, these geniuses have a solution to pick up the significant amount of slack caused by letting go of tens of thousands of domain experts and civil servants all at once: a chatbot. According to Wired, DOGE has given about 1,500 employees at the US General Services Administration, the agency that manages federal real estate and oversee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 23:22:29
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce. GSAi is meant to support “general” tasks, similar to commercial tools like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. It is tailored in a way that makes it safe for government use, a GSA worker tells WIRED.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:01:30
Special Report By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis Blachez A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremli
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 03:31:44
In Brief Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI models. Pravda has flooded search results and web crawlers with pro-Russian falsehoods, publishing 3.6 million misleading artic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 08:31:44
In Brief Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI models. Pravda has flooded search results and web crawlers with pro-Russian falsehoods, publishing 3.6 million misleading articl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 13:04:44
X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now mention Grok in replies and ask a question to get an explanation about a post. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social media platform could already access Grok through a button in the sidebar. They can also click on the Grok button placed next to all posts so that the AI-powered chatbot explains the post’s text and image through the image understanding feature
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 19:09:33
Evals are not all you need Andrew Marble marble.onl [email protected] March 3, 2025 TLDR: Evals make sense for unitless comparison between different base language models (LLMs), and have their place in testing, but the premise of using them to guarantee software performance is flawed. What are evals? Evals (evaluations) refers to test-based performance measurement of AI systems. For example, in a customer service chatbot, an eval could entail prompting the chatbot with a set of customer qu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 13:04:15
Elon Musk has boasted that his "anti-woke" Grok AI is supposed to be "maximum [sic] truth-seeking." But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI's buzzy new chatbot Grok 3 about disinformation, it had some extremely special instructions for answers about its creator. Over the weekend, a user discovered that when they asked Grok 3 who the "biggest disinformation spreader" on X was and demanded the chatbot show its instructions, it admitted that it'd been t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 13:04:15
Elon Musk has boasted that his "anti-woke" AI is supposed to be "maximum [sic] truth-seeking." But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI's buzzy new chatbot Grok 3 about disinformation, it had some extremely special instructions for answers about its creator. Over the weekend, a user discovered that when they asked Grok 3 who the "biggest disinformation spreader" on X was and demanded the chatbot show its instructions, it admitted that it'd been told t
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