Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.
The People Who Marry Chatbots
A growing community is building a life with large language models.
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future of Interfaces
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable. Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, my inner designer has been bursting at the seams.
Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault
We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to ha…
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.
Are Chatbots Harming Our Relationships? | KQED
As our relationships with bots deepen, human-AI relationship coach Amelia Miller warns we could wake up one day to find our ability to connect with each other has atrophied, which may leave us feeling profoundly alone.
AI chatbots are 'juicing engagement' instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns | TechCrunch
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead
Tu historial amoroso, médico o laboral en manos de la IA: ¿cómo proteger tu privacidad de los chatbots? - Factchequeado.com
Los chatbots de inteligencia artificial —como ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity o Grok— se han vuelto herramientas…
‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
The company denied making "major changes," but users report noticeable differences in the quality of their chatbot conversations.
HuggingChat - Chat with AI models
Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone
Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human - KFF Health News
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.
AI’s ‘Delusional Spirals’ (and What to Do About Them) | Stanford HAI
In a world where chatbots can stand in for friends, counselors, and even lovers, the mental health risks are a growing concern.
What do Britons think AI chatbots are good at?
Britons see chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek as good at sums, style and general knowledge, but think they would be bad at tackling emotional issues
Announcing CSML, a new open-source language to easily build full-featured chatbots
We are building the framework to support the chatbots of the future
