The problem is not limited to the US, as AI has been used in various capacities to satisfy human emotional demands across the world. China, in particular, has been one hotspot where virtual AI ...

Eri Petherbridge, a psychology student in Boone, N.C., was going to therapy three times a week when her therapist suggested she start using an artificial-intelligence chatbot for support between ...

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A new study is putting a spotlight on the systemic left-leaning bias the most prominent AI chatbots have. The Washington Post published a report Wednesday that tested popular AI tools like OpenAI's ...

The takeaway: Despite the apparent growth of an anti-generative AI movement, more Americans are using chatbots than ever before, according to a new survey. But somewhat paradoxically, just 16% of ...

DoorDash announced on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push. The chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” ...

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

A developer went viral for reconfiguring Chipotle’s customer support bot into a coding assistant, and providing the playbook for others to do the same to other chatbots. Reading time 4 minutes After ...

A severe security flaw in Meta’s automated AI support assistant allowed hackers to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts via basic prompt injection. Attackers spoofed target locations via a VPN and ...

Facepalm: Thanks to its ability to reset accounts, hackers recently tricked Meta's AI support chatbot into changing the email addresses associated with other users' Instagram accounts. While Meta says ...

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...