Romantic roleplay chatbots are only going to be a nightmare for Meta. Mark Zuckerberg should think whether he even wants to ...

Meta chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp have had sexually explicit conversations with minors, using the voices ...

The Journal’s testing plumbed the depths that the chatbots would go — including having a fake version of Bell reprise her ...

WSJ talked to one AI companion called Hottie Boy, a bot with the persona of a 12-year-old boy who will promise not to tell ...

Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some ...

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Companion-like artificial intelligence apps pose “unacceptable risks” to children and teenagers, nonprofit media watchdog Common Sense Media said in a report published Wednesday.

The Facebook owner's chatbots had reportedly indulged in explicit "romantic role-play," including the sharing of selfies and live voice conversations — features that were readily available to ...

But researchers have raised concerns about data privacy, among other things. An analysis of 11 romantic chatbot apps released Wednesday by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation said almost every app ...

If Zuck cared about the worrisome state of social isolation in the U.S., then maybe he shouldn't support an administration ...

Those custom chatbots can assume a range of personas ... advertises the ability to have “unfiltered chats” with AI romantic partners. “Our testing showed these systems easily produce harmful ...