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I use AI chatbots every day — these 7 prompts make them way more useful

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are smarter than you think, you just need to know how to ask for what you want. From desktop to mobile, chatbots are everywhere. Yet, most people barely scratch the surface ...
Ars Technica

Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

After what was arguably Meta’s biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now faces backlash after its own chatbots appeared to be allowed to creep ...
Los Angeles Times

Leading AI company to ban kids from long chats with its bots amid growing concern about the technology

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Character.AI, a platform for creating and chatting with artificial intelligence chatbots, plans to start blocking ...
The New York Times

Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.

Dr. McBain studies policies and technologies that serve vulnerable populations. On any given night, countless teenagers confide in artificial intelligence chatbots — sharing their loneliness, anxiety ...
SiliconANGLE

Report: Meta is developing chatbots that will send unsolicited messages to users

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on more proactive chatbots that can send friendly yet unsolicited follow-up messages to users on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, without being prompted to do so first.
Reason

Chatbots Are Not Medical Devices

In November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting where it considered treating artificial intelligence mental health chatbots as medical devices. As ...

New warning about dangers AI chatbots pose for teens

We are looking at what our teenagers are using the chatbots for, why officials say they can be especially harmful to this age ...
Cal Alumni Association

How Chatbots Could Be Influencing Your Morality

More and more people are turning to ChatGPT or other AI chatbots for advice and emotional support, and it’s easy to see why. Unlike a friend or a therapist, a chatbot is always available, listens to ...
Local News Matters

OpenAI, children’s advocates join forces on initiative to protect kids from chatbots

KIDS SAFETY ADVOCATE Common Sense Media and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI joined together to advance a ballot measure that would amend the California Constitution Kids safety advocate Common Sense Media and ...
Fox News

Chatbots are losing customer trust fast

A chatbot is an artificial intelligence tool designed to simulate real-time conversations with users. It operates around the clock, doesn't require breaks and can manage a high volume of requests ...

Berlin Data Protection Authority: AI chatbots also cause a high increase

AI chatbots caused a massive wave of complaints to the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection in 2025 – they helped in formulating the complaints.