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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We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts. In addition to ...

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 ...

The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI’s technology has been used throughout the Iran ...

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 ...

The widespread hacking campaign that relied on simply asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after the company said the issue had been ...

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 ...

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) are being integrated into the mental health industry for counseling, therapy, and companionship. A recent Brown University study ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot for the first time, a key step toward building a business that would help offset hundreds of billions of dollars in ...