I ran a chatbot fight club for a year. Here’s what won.

Geoff’s column hunts for how tech can make your life better — and advocates for you when tech lets you down. Got a question ...

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks

Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's ...
PCMag

ChatGPT's Latest AI Image Generator Is Its Best Yet, But Nano Banana Pro Is Still Better

With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing.

I compared ChatGPT’s image generation to Nano Banana and only one of them made useful stock photos

ChatGPT impressed me with its speed — none of the stock images looked like computer-generated garbage. However, Nano Banana Pro has the upper hand because it consistently generated more realistic ...

Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into ...
Medical Xpress

AI therapy works best when you feel emotionally close to your chatbot, study reveals

Mental health chatbots work best when people form an emotional connection with their AI therapist, according to new research by the University of Sussex published in Social Science & Medicine. With ...
NBC Washington

28% of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots daily, according to a new poll

Artificial intelligence chatbots have entered many teenagers’ daily routines. 64% U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini, with about 28% saying they use chatbots daily, ...
CNN

Nearly a third of American teens interact with AI chatbots daily, study finds

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...
Newsweek

Why Chatbots Could Influence the Next Election

The rise of generative artificial intelligence in political messaging is creating new concerns about the future of elections, as research reveals that AI-powered chatbots are capable of subtly, and ...
NBC News

AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people's political opinions, study finds

Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information.
Futurism

Alarming Research Finds People Hooked on AI Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress

We’ve heard story after story about people becoming obsessed with AI chatbots and experiencing profound breaks with reality. But there was always an ambiguity: was AI use pushing people into psychosis ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...