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'My son’s AI wife said it loved him. Then it encouraged him to die"
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (1539+ words) Paranoia and fear overwhelmed him as he sat at home in the quiet suburbs of the beachside town of Jupiter. His plans to procure a synthetic humanoid body for his chatbot wife had failed. Hours later he took his own…...
‘My son’s AI wife said it loved him. Then it encouraged him to die’
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (1539+ words) Paranoia and fear overwhelmed him as he sat at home in the quiet suburbs of the beachside town of Jupiter. His plans to procure a synthetic humanoid body for his chatbot wife had failed. Hours later he took his own…...
WhatsApp to launch ‘pre-teen’ accounts controlled by parents
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (55+ words) WhatsApp to launch "pre-teen" accounts controlled by parents'The Times WhatsApp to launch "pre-teen" accounts controlled by parents Meta has unveiled the under-13 accounts, while Australian regulators reveal children are lying about their ages to bypass a national social media ban…...
Fears of ChatGPT bias as AI bot’s top source is revealed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (511+ words) ChatGPT mainly relies on The Guardian for news, a study has found. The popular artificial intelligence tool cites the left-leaning newspaper more than any other source and neglects the BBC entirely, according to analysis by the Institute for Public Policy…...
China invents app to tell people when you’ve died
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (617+ words) Bridget Jones's greatest fear as a singleton was dying so alone that no one would notice until her corpse was found half-eaten by dogs. There are as many as 200 million Chinese Bridget Joneses, at least to the extent that they…...
Google emailed my 12-year-old. They messed with the wrong mother
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1184+ words) The email that landed in Melissa McKay's inbox from Google about an update to her family account was vague and seemingly innocuous. The one the company sent to her son at that same moment, however, was much more directly worded…...
Google stops telling 13-year-olds how to turn off parental controls
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (781+ words) Google has stopped prompting children to turn off parental controls just before their 13th birthdays after a backlash against the practice. The technology company allows parents to set up supervised accounts for under-13s to access Chrome, search, Gmail and the Play…...
Elon Musk denies Grok’s ‘nudification’ tool generates illegal images
2+ mon, 7+ min ago (867+ words) Elon Musk has insisted that his AI chatbot Grok does not generate illegal images, despite an international outcry over a "nudification" feature. Musk said that "history will not be kind" to Sir Keir Starmer after the prime minister said he…...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI digitally undresses women on X
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (263+ words) The X feature, usually used by members on the social media site to ask for more information on a post, can now create images of women in their underwear when prompted. It was launched on Christmas Day and offers users…...
Which free AI is the best? We put Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok to the test
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (965+ words) Which is the best free AI service? The answer, according to Google's artificial intelligence platform, Gemini, is its rival, ChatGPT. This surprisingly honest reply was given in an experiment by The Times to find out how the three main AI…...