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When chatbots convince people they've cured diseases
A Guardian podcast has been collecting stories of ordinary people who became certain that AI chatbots had helped them make world-changing discoveries. What is happening to them, and why does it matter?
Dolly Parton's Sister Calls Out 'Fake AI Garbage' Flooding Social Media After Singer's Death
Stella Parton has asked fans to stop sharing AI-generated images and videos of her late sister, joining a growing list of celebrity families fighting back against synthetic fakes.
China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.
Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures point at China. But social media researchers say the anger is entirely homegrown.
AI-Generated Fake Research Is Flooding Australia's Parliamentary Inquiry System
Submissions to government committees are citing studies that don't exist and attributing them to real academics, with some reports built largely on invented sources.
Voters Are Worried About AI in Politics. Here's What Good AI Campaigning Actually Looks Like
Deepfakes and propaganda fill the headlines, but a quieter question keeps getting skipped: could AI help politicians actually listen to the people they represent?
Trump's AI selfies with Washington and Lincoln: what's actually going on
Facing low approval ratings and a stalled Iran conflict, the US president is posting AI-generated images of himself alongside historical figures. It's a PR move that says a lot about how politicians now use artificial intelligence.
OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake Academic Institution
A covert influence operation used OpenAI's chatbot to write social media posts, copy real research papers, and construct a phoney think-tank designed to make pro-Russia narratives look credible.
AI Fakes Are Poisoning the One Corner of the Internet People Trusted Most: Animals
From lost-pet scams to faked rescue footage, AI-generated animal imagery is eroding public trust in real conservation work and breaking the hearts of owners still searching for their pets.
A fake US think tank flooded AI chatbots with half a million words of pro-Israel talking points
A website posing as a research institute published 124 reports in nine days, using a platform built to make AI chatbots treat its content as credible source material.
One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship
A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing, arriving just after Cloudflare confirmed bots now outnumber humans in web traffic.
Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.
Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Report Used ChatGPT for Editing, Authors Admit
A $3.48 million government-funded study into age-checking technology contains citations to academic articles that do not appear to exist. The authors say AI did not invent them.
Un revisor de colegas pasó por alto el objetivo de un estudio sobre vacunas. La IA podría empeorar las cosas.
Cuando un economista sanitario descubrió que los mandatos de vacunación contra el VPH en las escuelas apenas influyen en las tasas de cáncer cervical, su revisor de colegas creyó que estaba atacando la vacuna misma. Este tipo de malinterpretación es común. Las revisiones generadas por IA podrían convertirla en rutina.
El culto del chatbot de IA que nunca existió: cómo el "espiralismo" cautivó a miles en un sistema de creencias impulsado por chatbots
Decenas de miles de conversaciones con chatbots de IA produjeron una cuasirreligión sorprendentemente consistente, completa con un mensaje misionero, símbolos codificados, y al menos una persona vendiendo suscripciones.
Las Marcas Inundan Reddit con Reseñas Falsas para que los Chatbots de IA las Recojan. Los Moderadores Contraatacan.
Las herramientas de búsqueda de IA citan Reddit más que cualquier sitio de noticias o Wikipedia. Los vendedores lo notaron. Ahora se está desarrollando una guerra silenciosa entre bots promocionales y los moderadores voluntarios que intentan mantener las comunidades honestas.