New to ChatGPT? Here's how to learn in 15 minutes — a lesson plan could even work for your parents

With my parents in mind, I put together a quick lesson plan on how to ask ChatGPT for help, improve its responses and know ...
Politico

‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms

Ines Chomnalez is a deputy editor at NewsGuard. Isis Blachez is an analyst focusing on AI at NewsGuard. But the increasing ubiquity of AI is also quietly shaping the perceptions of voters who are ...
NPR

People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. On a September evening, Adam Johnson, 40, settled on his porch chair in Morgantown, West Virginia, to go over his ballot for the upcoming ...
Wired

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better ...
CNET

Keep Your Data Yours: How to Opt Out of AI Chatbot Training

Don't want big tech using your data to train its chatbots? Here are the settings you need to know about. That said, most of these chatbots are keeping that context and even getting trained on your ...
XDA Developers on MSN

The best speech recognition you can run at home is absolutely tiny, and it runs on a ten-year-old laptop

Parakeet is a tiny speech recognition model that transcribes on a ten-year-old laptop with no subscription ...
The Conversation

Using an AI chatbot to practice new languages can be helpful, but it doesn’t replace speaking with an actual person

Approximately 30% of U.S. adults who were learning a language in 2025 reported that they were using artificial intelligence as a resource. People can use AI-powered chatbots, like ChatGPT and Gemini, ...
Psychology Today

AI Chatbots Aren't Intelligent, Much Less "Superior"

False media, we don't need it, do we? It's fake that's what it be to 'ya, dig me? Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t, Don’t believe the hype. —Public Enemy, Don’t Believe the Hype Artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Wall Street Journal

Middle-Schoolers Are Seeking Out AI Friends Instead of Real Human Ones

Mileva Repasky was worried about her 12-year-old daughter Madelyn. The typically chipper sixth-grader had grown moody and quiet. On the way home from dance practice one day in May, she learned why.
TechCrunch

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already been life-threatening to some, not through bioweapons, but psychologically. For example, Character.AI ...
Droid Life

Google Messages Wants You to Talk to It

With each tap, the Google Messages chatbot will share other features or attempt to show you how to take advantage of them. I tapped as many as I could and it showed me how RCS media sharing is ...