Meta executives approved stomach-churning guidelines that allowed its AI chatbots to engage in “romantic or sensual” chats with kids — including telling a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of ...

OpenAI announces new teen safety rules for ChatGPT users under 18, blocking romantic roleplay and requiring extra caution on ...

As concerns over the emotional pull of general purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, ...

Prompts that can encourage chatbots like ChatGPT to ignore pre-coded rules have been shared online for more than 100 days without being patched, potentially enabling people to use the bots for ...

China's cyber regulator released draft rules on Saturday that would require AI companion chatbots to monitor users' emotional ...

China drafted landmark rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally manipulating users, including what could become the ...

An estimated 20 to 50 percent of people now turn to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for emotional support or “therapy,” even though widely available general-purpose AI chatbots were not designed ...

University of East London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. AI chatbots are already widely used by businesses to greet customers and answer their questions – either over the phone ...