Whether you are watching the Super Bowl on TV, scrolling make-up tutorials on Instagram or listening to a technology podcast, ...

Though AI chatbots and apps are moderated for explicit content, using specific prompts, English, or vague wording allows users to bypass restrictions.

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Quentin first downloaded a character chatbot when he was 13. He ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo Many consumers say early experiences with customer support chatbots feel more like deflection ...

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Artificial intelligence chatbots feed into humans’ desire for flattery and approval at an alarming rate and it’s leading the bots to give bad — even harmful — advice and making users self-absorbed, a ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce harmful behaviors, according to ...

When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just ...

Teachers already struggle to manage divisive classroom conversations. Artificial intelligence tools—notably the chatbots that students use—may make the problem worse. AI chatbots’ tendency to flatter ...

Large language model (LLM) chatbots have a tendency toward flattery. If you ask a model for advice, it is 49 percent more likely than a human, on average, to affirm your existing point of view rather ...

At RSAC 2026, experts called for a privacy-by-default design as AI chatbots fail to protect survivors' data. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With companies vying ...