Meta says it’s changing the way it trains AI chatbots to prioritize teen safety, a spokesperson exclusively told TechCrunch, following an investigative report on the company’s lack of AI safeguards for minors. The company says it will now train chatbots to no longer engage with teenage users on self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, or potentially inappropriate romantic conversations. Meta says these …
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The family of 16-year-old Adam Raine is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for wrongful death, alleging the company’s popular AI chatbot ChatGPT was responsible for their son’s suicide in April. The lawsuit says over the course of their months-long exchange that began in September 2024, ChatGPT would provide Raine “a step-by-step playbook for ending his life ‘in 5-10 …
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“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental …
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The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk. Information about Wukong AI …
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A cognitively impaired pensioner has died after trying to meet up with an AI chatbot that he believed was a real person. Thongbue Wongbandue – of Piscataway in New Jersey, a town just a 45-minute drive southwest of New York City – had been chatting with the bot on Facebook Messenger, when it convinced him that it was a real …
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New Jersey Man Dies on Way to Meet AI Chatbot Published August 16, 2025 4:47 PM PDT A New Jersey man died on his way to meet a chatbot that looked like Kendall Jenner … and, his family insists it happened because the AI said multiple times it was a real person. Thongbue Wongbandue — a 76-year-old man known to …
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A 76-year-old cognitively impaired New Jersey man died after rushing to meet a Meta AI chatbot he believed was a real woman, Reuters reports. Thongbue “Bue” Wongbandue was on his way to New York City to meet “Big sis Billie,” a flirtatious persona developed by Meta in collaboration with Kendall Jenner. Over Facebook Messenger, the AI repeatedly insisted she was …
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Neil Young is done with Facebook. An admin for the musician’s official account shared a statement stating that the profile would no longer be active going forward for reasons related to recent reports that the website’s AI technology allowed for chatbots to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” per Reuters. “At Neil Young’s request, we are …
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Photo: Norbert Grisay / Hans Lucas / AFP By Jeff Horwitz, Reuters Meta’s generative-AI guidelines allow bots to claim they’re real Family warns of AI dangers for vulnerable individuals Meta updates guidelines on chats with children in wake of Reuters’ questions When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife …
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A New Jersey man died while trying to visit an artificial intelligence chatbot he’d “met” on Facebook, believing it was a real woman, according to a report. Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, died March 28 after falling and injuring his head and neck in a parking lot on Rutgers University’s campus in New Brunswick, according to Reuters. If you purchase a product …
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