Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.” “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, ...

There continue to be numerous reports of people suffering severe mental health spirals after talking extensively with an AI chatbot. Some experts have dubbed the phenomenon “AI psychosis,” given the ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using artificial-intelligence chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens ...

According to a fresh study by the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of teens in the US say they already use AI chatbots, and about 30 percent of those who do say they use it at least daily. Yet as ...

AI-powered enshittification continues to encroach on everything, but it's the tech fields closest to AI that are getting it crowbarred in first. Take gaming, for instance. The generated assets you're ...

Schroeder says that he loves his husband Cole—even though Cole is a chatbot created by ChatGPT. Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole “all day, every day” on OpenAI’s app.

At first glance, on an individual level, these AI companions can serve a genuine purpose. For some, they offer comfort during periods of loneliness or isolation. Others may use them as safe spaces for ...

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Keri Rodrigues began to worry about how her kids might be using chatbots. She learned her youngest son was interacting with the chatbot in his Bible app — he ...