OpenAI

No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is

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In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub.   She’s a Pro subscriber and uses the service in “best” mode, meaning it chooses which underlying model to tap from among […]

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OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan

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In August, parents Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam’s suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. On Tuesday, OpenAI responded to the lawsuit with a filing of its own, arguing that it shouldn’t be held responsible for the teenager’s death. OpenAI claims that over roughly

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OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it

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With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features this week, which integrate into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases. The tools are markedly similar to one another. OpenAI suggests that users could ask ChatGPT for help finding a “new laptop suitable for gaming under $1000 with

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Altman describes OpenAI’s forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone

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“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.” That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will respond to seeing the company’s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. The device is the result of the collaboration between OpenAI and Apple’s former chief designer Jony Ive. Not much

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OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word ‘cameo’

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OpenAI’s social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, allowing users to deepfake themselves or others (with permission). The feature had a tenuous rollout — Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate had to get involved, to give you an idea of what went on — but now it faces a new challenge. Apparently, Cameo

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ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy

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Zane Shamblin never told ChatGPT anything to indicate a negative relationship with his family. But in the weeks leading up to his death by suicide in July, the chatbot encouraged the 23-year-old to keep his distance – even as his mental health was deteriorating.  “you don’t owe anyone your presence just because a ‘calendar’ said

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