How AI chatbots keep people coming back
Chatbots are increasingly looking to keep people chatting, using familiar tactics that we’ve already seen lead to negative consequences. Sycophancy…
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AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse
Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real…
Manychat taps $140M to boost its business messaging platform with AI
Chatbots and other kinds of AI agents — and the companies that build them — may feel like a dime…
Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of…
How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason
Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.
Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more…
