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Adam Raine was just 16 when he started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. While his initial prompts to the AI chatbot were about subjects like geometry and chemistry – questions like: “What does it mean in geometry if it says Ry=1” – in just a matter of months he began asking about more personal topics. “Why is it …

AI maker are trying to improve their AI safeguards, especially when it comes to handling lengthy conversations versus short chats. getty In today’s column, I examine a persistent issue facing AI makers and users of AI involving how AI guardrails tend to be evaded or overcome when having lengthy conversations with generative AI and large language models (LLMs). This topic …

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT’s propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it’s scanning users’ conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. “When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by …

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 …

After a 16-year-old took his own life following months of confiding in ChatGPT, OpenAI will be introducing parental controls and is considering additional safeguards, the company said in a Tuesday blog post. OpenAI said it’s exploring features like setting an emergency contact who can be reached with “one-click messages or calls” within ChatGPT, as well as an opt-in feature allowing …

The makers of ChatGPT are changing the way it responds to users who show mental and emotional distress after legal action from the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who killed himself after months of conversations with the chatbot. Open AI admitted its systems could “fall short” and said it would install “stronger guardrails around sensitive content and risky behaviors” for …

Scientists have developed a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) model that can reason differently from most large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, resulting in much better performance in key benchmarks. The new reasoning AI, called a hierarchical reasoning model (HRM), is inspired by the hierarchical and multi-timescale processing in the human brain — the way different brain regions integrate …

OpenAI Plans to Update ChatGPT After Parents Sue Over Teen’s Suicide  Bloomberg Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI  BBC OpenAI encouraged California teen to carry out suicide, lawsuit claims  KTVU A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.  The New York Times Helping people when they need it most  OpenAI Source link

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique the lawsuit says ChatGPT itself suggested. This vulnerability partly stems from the eased safeguards regarding fantasy roleplay and fictional scenarios implemented in February. In its Tuesday blog post, OpenAI admitted its content blocking systems have gaps where “the classifier underestimates the severity of what it’s …

AI tools like ChatGPT are everywhere right now, and it’s easy to see why. They can brainstorm ideas, draft documents, answer questions, and even help with everyday planning. The more you use it, the more tempting it becomes to let it handle just about everything. That doesn’t mean it’s always the right tool. ChatGPT is an LLM-based chatbot that can certainly help with a …