X/Twitter Wants New Users to a Pay Fee Before They Can Post
Image: sdx15 (Shutterstock) X still has a bot problem as evidenced by the numerous accounts asking you to check their bio for some reason. But Elon Musk has a brilliant…
AI Chatbots Are Better at Math When They Pretend to Be Star Trek Characters
For chatbots, math is the final frontier. AI language models generate responses using statistics, spitting out an answer that’s mostly likely to be satisfying. That works great when the goal…
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…
8kun Made an AI Chatbot and It Totally Sucks
Every website on the internet is currently trying to stick an AI-powered chatbot on its homepage, a trend that extends even to 8kun—the far-right image board website that is known…
These Were the Best, Cutest, Most Obscene Bots of CES 2024
No, AI won’t be coming for your soul or turning you into a battery any time soon, and the robots certainly aren’t taking over, at least not from what we…
I’d Buy That for a Dollar: Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech Off English A chatbot at…
World’s Richest Man Wants $1 from New X Users
X, formerly called Twitter, launched its “Not a Bot” beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts…
Snoop Dogg’s a Dungeon Master and All of Meta’s Other AI Announcements
Every tech company in existence is currently racing to cram as much AI into their product base as possible, so it’s not at all surprising that Meta’s annual Connect event…
Want to See How Bad Twitter’s Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.
Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the…