The AI giants behind two of the world's most popular chatbots, Claude and ChatGPT, have escalated their beef. Now people are picking sides.

A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

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Google's Gemini chatbot sent a man on delusional journeys before encouraging him to kill himself. Now his father is suing over the death.

Influencer affiliate platform LTK is gradually rolling out a new chatbot to help users shop and discover content from creators.

BBC Radio Devon's Caroline Densley talks to Dr Lucy Osler about chatbot relationships as part of BBC AI Unpacked Week. Dr Osler, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter, specialises in human-AI relations, affectivity, and psychopathology.

In reality, the chatbot was just trying to be agreeable. Large language models will happily engage in role-play if they think that is what a user wants. Research released by AI start-up Anthropic in 2023 found that the LLMs that underpin chatbots often prioritised agreeing with a user’s perspective over being truthful.