Modern tech support keeps selling self-service as convenience, but every chatbot loop and repeated explanation adds up to unpaid labor.
Researchers are using AI to decode ancient manuscripts, damaged letters, and historical archives that humans have struggled to interpret for centuries.
A UC San Diego study found GPT-4.5 was judged human more often than real people in live chats, raising sharper questions about AI disclosure, trust, and online identity.
As AI turns intelligence into an on-demand service, experts warn that instant answers could weaken the curiosity, scrutiny, and source-checking habits that make human thinking valuable.
Tarot card readers are using ChatGPT to interpret spreads, showing how AI is moving from productivity into grief, faith, and meaning-making, where confident answers can flatten human uncertainty.
Your chatbot may not feel anything, but new research shows emotion-like signals inside AI can shape responses, steer decisions, and even push systems toward risky behavior under pressure.
A Stanford study finds AI chatbots sometimes enable violent or self-harm thoughts in rare cases, exposing gaps in crisis response and raising concerns about how safe these tools are for emotional support.
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In April of 2025, OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o, one of the AI algorithms users could select to power ChatGPT, the company’s chatbot. The next week, OpenAI reverted to the previous version. “The update we removed was overly flattering or agr…
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