When Quentin was 13, he kept seeing ads on YouTube for Talkie, an app with "countless AIs eager to speak with you." The ads were weird, he said, and sometimes crude. One ad featured an animated girl ...

AI models can confidently generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. Here's everything you need to know about hallucinations. Barbara is a tech writer ...

Next time you pick up your kids from school, count how many kids don’t have smartphones. Students have phones at younger and younger ages and use them around the clock. Is reading a book at bedtime a ...

Companies are rushing to add AI chat elements into their consumer apps and services — including ones aimed at kids and teens. We don't exactly understand how younger people interact with AI chatbots, ...

If you've ever turned to artificial intelligence to try to figure out how to handle a tricky situation with a friend or ...

Have you ever typed a question into a chat box on a bank's website or an app and got an instant reply, even at midnight? That was probably a chatbot replying, not a real person. And honestly, chatbots ...

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination - ...