Want Gemini and ChatGPT to Write Political Campaigns? Just Gaslight Them
These days, we hear a lot about all the safeguards Gemini and ChatGPT have in place. But all you need to do is gaslight them and they’ll spit out anything…
OpenAI’s Effort to Trademark ‘GPT’ Crushed by Feds
Ever since OpenAI debuted its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, effectively piquing the world’s interest in the technology and setting off an AI arms race, the company has been trying…
Air Canada Ordered to Pay Passenger Damages After Chatbot Lied About Bereavement Discounts
A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot, which resulted in the passenger…
University of Michigan Says It’s Not Selling Student Data to AI Companies
On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google…
Why Are People Saying Google Gemini Is ‘Full of Ghosts?’
Google just released its long-awaited ChatGPT killer, Gemini, an ultra-smart AI chatbot that can finally match OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Early reviews of Google’s chatbot are slowly rolling out, and everyone is…
OpenAI Wants to Control Your Computer
OpenAI is reportedly developing “agent software,” that will effectively take over your device and complete complex tasks on your behalf, according to The Information. OpenAI’s agent would work between multiple…
This Guy Used ChatGPT to Talk to 5,000 Women on Tinder and Met His Wife
Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant. When Aleksandr Zhadan got out of his last relationship in 2021, he started looking for a…
Weekend Tech Roundup January 27, 2024
Photo: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security…
AI chatbot goes rogue during customer-service exchange
International delivery firm DPD is updating its AI-powered chatbot after it gave some unexpected responses during an exchange with a disgruntled customer. Musician Ashley Beauchamp recently turned to DPD’s customer-service…
Was Ron Desantis Running on ChatGPT This Whole Time?
Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns.…