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Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including…
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A proposed bipartisan bill would seek to bar minors from interacting with AI chatbots, marking a forceful attempt to subject AI companies to federal regulation over concerns about minors and…
A proposed bipartisan bill would seek to bar minors from interacting with AI chatbots, marking a forceful attempt to subject AI companies to federal regulation over concerns about minors and…
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In the latest episode of “Congress vs. The Machines,” Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have teamed up for a bipartisan crusade against chatbots that might be getting…
Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems…
You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the…
If you’ve been asking your AI assistant to catch you up on the news, you might want to double-check those “facts.” A new European Broadcasting Union (EBU) study, done with…
Apple just served up some piping hot drama, and not the kind you’d find on a dating app. The company has officially booted Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store,…
Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on…