Over the last five years the use of highly personalized artificial intelligence chatbots — called companion chatbots — designed to act as friends, therapists or even romantic partners has ...

Millions of people use generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude for help with drafting tricky work emails, planning summer vacations and everything in between.

A chatbot learns from people. And people are terrible. Therefore the chatbot is also terrible. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Just when you think life online can't get worse than it already is ...