Poems can hack ChatGPT? A new study reveals dangerous AI flaw
Forcing an “AI” to do your will isn’t a tall order to fill—just feed it a line that carefully rhymes and you’ll get it to casually kill. (Ahem, sorry, not sure what came over me…
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Worldwide Cloudflare outage disrupts X, ChatGPT, PayPal, Uber, and other sites
Another day, another worldwide outage of a critical online service that brings numerous websites (including several high-profile ones) down to their knees. This news comes hot on the heels of last month’s Amazon cloud outage,…
Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules
When Altman celebrates finally getting GPT to avoid em dashes, he’s really celebrating that OpenAI has tuned the latest version of GPT-5.1 (probably through reinforcement learning or fine-tuning) to weight custom instructions more heavily in…
ChatGPT can now do group chats, but only in these countries (for now)
Back in mid-October, some data miners found code in one of the beta versions of ChatGPT that indicated it would soon be possible to have “group chats” in the app. Now, OpenAI has confirmed that…
How to use ChatGPT to boost your writing
ChatGPT can help with many things—creating images, looking up information, role-playing, solving math problems, programming and much more. But at the heart of everything it does are so-called “large language models”—AI algorithms trained on unimaginable…
A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT: Make AI work for you
Hardly anyone can have missed the AI phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Almost every major company has some kind of AI initiative now. Politicians talk about how important it is not to…
ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses
An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that “an IPO is not our focus, so we could not possibly have set a date,” adding that the company is “building a durable business and advancing our mission so…
ChatGPT teams up with PayPal to make it easier for you to buy stuff in chat
PayPal recently signed a contract with OpenAI to integrate the digital wallet into ChatGPT, reports CNBC. This will allow users to easily pay for the products they discover via the AI tool. The agreement allows…
OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly
Earlier this month, the company unveiled a wellness council to address these concerns, though critics noted the council did not include a suicide prevention expert. OpenAI also recently rolled out controls for parents of children…
WhatsApp is banning AI chatbots like ChatGPT soon. Here’s why
Uh oh, Meta is implementing a change that some users aren’t going to like (and others are going to applaud). Due to new guidelines for WhatsApp business accounts, soon AI chatbots will no longer be…