Published on: 2025-06-10 20:08:12
Millions of people are now using ChatGPT as a therapist, career advisor, fitness coach, or sometimes just a friend to vent to. In 2025, it’s not uncommon to hear about people spilling intimate details of their lives into an AI chatbot’s prompt bar, but also relying on the advice it gives back. Humans are starting to have, for lack of a better term, relationships with AI chatbots, and for Big Tech companies, it’s never been more competitive to attract users to their chatbot platforms — and keep
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Can AI therapists really be an alternative to human help? 13 hours ago Share Save Eleanor Lawrie Social affairs reporter Share Save BBC Listen to this article "Whenever I was struggling, if it was going to be a really bad day, I could then start to chat to one of these bots, and it was like [having] a cheerleader, someone who's going to give you some good vibes for the day. "I've got this encouraging external voice going – 'right - what are we going to do [today]?' Like an imaginary friend, e
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My AI therapist got me through dark times: The good and bad of chatbot counselling 56 minutes ago Share Save Eleanor Lawrie Social affairs reporter Share Save BBC "Whenever I was struggling, if it was going to be a really bad day, I could then start to chat to one of these bots, and it was like [having] a cheerleader, someone who's going to give you some good vibes for the day. "I've got this encouraging external voice going – 'right - what are we going to do [today]?' Like an imaginary frien
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To bypass artificial intelligence writing detection, college students are reportedly adding typos into their chatbot-generated papers. In a wide-ranging exploration into the ways AI has rapidly changed academia, students told New York Magazine that AI cheating has become so normalized, they're figuring out creative ways to get away with it. While it's common for students — and for anyone else who uses ChatGPT and other chatbots — to edit the output of an AI chatbot, some are adding typos manua
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 12:13:50
With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical self-diagnosis. About 1 in 6 American adults already use chatbots for health advice at least monthly, according to one recent survey. But placing too much trust in chatbots’ outputs can be risky, in part because people struggle to know what information to give chatbots for the best possible health recommendations, according to a recent Oxford-led s
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A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential. In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Ande
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A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential. In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Ande
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings. In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel this week, Zuckerberg asserted that more people should be connecting with chatbots on a social level — because, in a striking line of argumentation, they don't have enough real-life friends. When asked if AI chatbots can help fight the loneliness epidemic, the billionaire painted a dystopian vision o
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In Brief Google’s AdSense advertising network started supporting ads inside users’ chats with some third-party AI chatbots earlier this year, Bloomberg reported. The company is rolling out the feature following tests with AI search startups iAsk and Liner, the report said, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. “AdSense for Search is available for websites that want to show relevant ads in their conversational AI experiences,” Bloomberg cited a Google spokesperson as saying. The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 22:45:00
Watch out. Wrong Dot Com Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still strikingly bad at giving financial advice. AI researchers Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence posed a series of 12 finance questions to four leading large language models (LLMs) — OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, DeepSeek-V2, Elon Musk's Grok 3 Beta, and Google's Gemini 2 — to test out their financial
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After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman bemoaned the massive additional costs of people saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT, one New York Times reporter is making the case that it's worth the price. In a new piece, NYT culture writer Sopan Deb acknowledged that the financial and environmental toll of those additional few words can be substantial — but for the sake of our humanity, it may well be worth it. With chatbots integrating steadily into our lives, our relationships with these technologies t
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Chatbots and other kinds of AI agents — and the companies that build them — may feel like a dime a dozen these days. But the truth is that, for both businesses and consumers, some may be infinitely more useful (and perhaps less dystopian) than others. Today, a startup that’s built a successful business around that concept is announcing a major growth round to expand its business. Manychat, which provides brands with a tool for managing and automating conversations and engagement across multiple
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If chivalry isn't already dead, it's certainly circling the drain. OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that people politely saying "please" and "thank you" to their AI chatbots is costing him bigtime. When one poster on X-formerly-Twitter wondered aloud "how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying 'please' and 'thank you' to their models," Altman chimed in, saying it's "tens of millions of dollars well spent." "You never know," he added. Wh
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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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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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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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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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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: 2025-10-19 19:17:15
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: 2025-10-23 02:16:41
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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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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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: 2025-10-27 05:31:44
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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