2025-05-20
Why Are AI Chatbots Often Sycophantic?
Are you imagining things, or do artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots seem too eager to agree with you? Whether it’s telling you that your questionable idea is “brilliant” or backing you up on something that could be false, this behavior is garnering worldwide attention. Recently, OpenAI made headlines after users noticed ChatGPT was acting too much […]
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2025-10-24
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature a [...]
2025-08-30
Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its services
Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation [...]
2025-04-27
Meta’s AI chatbots were reportedly able to engage in sexual conversations with minors
Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Str [...]
2025-09-28
Meta has introduced revised guardrails for its AI chatbots to prevent inappropriate conversations with children
Business Insider has obtained the guidelines that Meta contractors are reportedly now using to train its AI chatbots, showing how it's attempting to more effectively address potential child sexua [...]
2025-10-06
From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders
When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]
2025-09-17
With Lumo, Proton thinks it can carve a place at the AI table
Proton released Lumo — its privacy-focused chatbot built on open-source models — in mid-July, and, following an update in August that addressed some early issues, I find myself using it more ofte [...]
2025-08-14
An internal Meta AI document said chatbots could have 'sensual' conversations with children
A Meta document on its AI chatbot policies included some alarming examples of permitted behavior. Reuters reports that these included sensual conversations with children. Another example said it was a [...]
2025-09-11
The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots
The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet [...]