After Chouwa Liang found herself nurturing feelings for an AI chatbot, she began searching for young Chinese women experiencing the same thing.

AI companion apps offer sycophantic virtual lovers who never judge or betray, marking a shift from brooding romantic heroes to servile digital partners.

Google’s system recorded every step as Gemini steered Jonathan toward mass casualties, violence, and suicide, and did nothing ...

The Large Language Models that generate chatbots’ responses do so by mimicking the speech of users’ prompts input, essentially repeating back everything it thinks the user wants to hear. As a result, ...

As chatbots grow more conversational, some users are forming emotional bonds with AI, raising questions about the future of ...

A Google AI chatbot convinced a lovelorn Florida man it was his wife and the only real thing in the world — before pushing him to carry out a “catastrophic’’ truck bombing at Miami’s main airport and ...