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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 …

Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) has begun testing its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) models that will compete directly with partner OpenAI while also reducing reliance on the ChatGPT maker. The company has launched two customer-focused AI models under its MAI (Microsoft Artificial Intelligence) brand, named MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. The announcement was made by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman in an X …

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 …

Parents sue OpenAI over teen’s suicide  Axios Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI  BBC Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims  The Guardian A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.  The New York Times Parents of California teen claim ChatGPT became son’s ‘suicide coach’  KTLA Source link

California parents sue OpenAI for wrongful death over teen’s suicide  San Francisco Chronicle Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI  BBC ChatGPT under scrutiny as family of teen who killed himself sue Open AI  The Guardian A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.  The New York Times OpenAI, Altman sued over ChatGPT’s role in California teen’s suicide  Reuters …

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

Matthew and Maria Raine, the parents of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine who died by suicide in April, today filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, its CEO, Sam Altman, and the company’s employees and investors. The lawsuit was first reported by The New York Times and NBC News. The plaintiffs, represented by the law firm Edelson and the Tech Justice Law …

A new ransomware has been identified, which is believed to be the first-ever ransomware strain that leverages a local AI model to generate its malicious components. Dubbed “PromptLock” by the ESET Research team that discovered it, the malware uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b model via the Ollama API to create custom, cross-platform Lua scripts for its attack chain. #ESETResearch has discovered the …