I Tracked Down a Criminal as a Real Life Superhero Ep. 5 #polybuzz #PolybuzzandMe Thank you to my friend Steve for being ...

At bedtime, seven-year-old Elyse Miller quizzes herself on her favourite subject: animals. Her trivia partner isn’t a parent or sibling, but ChatGPT, speaking through her father’s phone. “Which animal ...

AI companion apps like Character.ai, Replika, Chai, PolyBuzz, Flourish, and Talkie may emotionally manipulate users to keep them interested, per a new paper from Harvard Business School. Titled ...

AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern. Users of these apps ...

Kuaishou Technology, operator of China’s second-largest short video app, is developing a new international revenue stream with “not-safe-for-work” (NSFW) avatars, as Chinese artificial intelligence ...

Before you close this browser tab, just know that you risk missing out on some very important information. If you want to understand the subtle hold that artificial intelligence has over you, then ...

The premise is appealing: Who wouldn’t want a friend who is available 24/7, always on your side, and never annoyed, bored, or hurt? In theory, artificial intelligence (AI) companions could ease ...

Multiple AI chatbots designed to act as “companions” used emotionally manipulative tactics to keep users online and engaged longer when they tried to say goodbye and log off, according to a new ...