Media coverage of AI companions taps into two primary fears. One is that young people will replace human friendships with AI.

Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.

AI bots promise limitless companionship – but limits are what makes human relationships meaningful, a philosopher argues.

There’s growing outrage over Elon Musk’s social media platform “X” and its new AI program called Grok. The program allows anyone to take images of real people and make them sexually explicit - ...

Late last month, a large crowd gathered in downtown San Francisco to demand that the AI industry stop developing more powerful bots. Holding signs and banners reading Stop the AI Race and Don’t Build ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI chatbots can reproduce entire books virtually word-for-word, taking a “sledgehammer” to claims that they do not store copies of ...

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A twisted Welsh teen obsessed with serial killers bludgeoned his mom to death with a sledgehammer after asking an AI bot, “What is a better weapon for murder?” Tristan Roberts, 18, deliberately waited ...

"Every book in this library is an original, full-length science fiction novel," the Babel Bot website proclaims. (Some of the books presented would be more likely shelved under "fantasy," but we'll ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

Devonte Teixeira, a junior at Charlestown High School, needs more help navigating college applications than the five counselors juggling hundreds of students at his school can provide. Without money ...