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Slop Goes the Weasel Reddit is poised to be overrun with infinite AI-powered marketing campaigns, if one enterprising tech startup has anything to say about it. And unfortunately for us, it…
Content warning: this story discusses school violence, sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. A chatbot, hosted by the Google-backed startup Character.AI, immediately throws the user into…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he’s launched an investigation into the Google-backed AI chatbot startup Character.AI over its privacy and safety practices for minors. The news comes…
Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Earlier this week, Futurism reported that two families in Texas had filed a lawsuit accusing…
Two families in Texas are suing the startup Character.AI and its financial backer Google, alleging that the platform’s AI characters sexually and emotionally abused their school-aged children, resulting in self-harm…
Safety Third Anthropic, the AI company that touts itself as the safety-prioritizing alternative to other AI firms like OpenAI — from which it’s poached many executives — has partnered with…
Red Tape The billion-dollar AI companion company Chatbot.AI has been accused of failing to protect a 14-year-old user who died by suicide after developing an intense emotional relationship with one…
As Wired reports, an AI startup called BattlegroundAI promises to use AI to churn out a flood of digital advertisements for progressive political campaigns, claiming on its website that its…
Heads Will Roll We’ve reached a new milestone in the uncanny valley, folks: AIs are now Rickrolling humans. In a now-viral post on X-formerly-Twitter, Flo Crivello, the CEO of the…
Credit’s Due Are generative AI models mass plagiarism machines? Many would argue that they are. For creating products that regurgitate other people’s content, AI companies lock down billions of dollars…