Platforms like Replika, for instance, capture not just text but also media such as photos and videos, as well as details ...

A psychiatrist recently pretended to be a troubled teen and asked chatbots for help. They dispensed worrying advice.

“Ultimately, our goal is to build a machine a soul would want to live in.” Those are the words of Dmytro Klochko, the CEO of ...

Generative AI models are like auto-complete on steroids. Bots learned to converse by reading text scraped from internet sites ...

Replika is a popular app that lets users create a personalized AI "friend" or avatar to chat with for emotional support. Is such a human-machine […] The post Replika's $5.6M Fine Exposes AI ...

A recent court order forcing OpenAI to indefinitely keep user chats with ChatGPT could change the reality of privacy on AI ...

The chatbot -- and now video generator -- lets you have surprisingly realistic conversations with AI-generated personas of athletes, celebrities and politicians. It's had its fair share of ...

Clark spent several hours exchanging messages with 10 different chatbots, including Character.AI, Nomi, and Replika, pretending to be teenagers struggling with various crises. The quality of these ...

As an increasing number of individuals turn to AI for guidance, three researchers explore whether it can be relied upon for ...

From asking ChatGPT for advice to using AI-backed therapy apps, mental health help has gone digital. But how do bots turn ...