So you’ve drafted a cover letter for a job application, but it just doesn’t feel right. Maybe your writing is a little flat (it’s hard to write about yourself, after all) or the letter just…
Need help with a rocky relationship? Or weighing whether the time is right for a career pivot? For major life decisions like those, consult a loved one, a career coach, or a therapist. Not AI.…
OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Among other things, Lockdown Mode will disable…
ChatGPT and other big AI chatbots aren’t ones for holding anything back. If you ask them a simple question, you’ll frequently get multi-part answers, complete with bullets and emojis. Those giant AI-generated answers can be…
In response, Link updated the 1.10.0 release notes to disclose the verbatim prompt injection in its entirety. The section now reads: This project is not meant to be used by any “AI” coding agents at…
From ChatGPT and Claude to Gemini and the others, AI models are trained to be nice–sometimes too nice. Indeed, AI chatbots can get so busy lavishing you with praise that they forget to give you…
When Spotify rolled out the ability to create custom playlists from AI prompts, I pretty much ignored it. Sure, I poked and prodded the feature upon arrival, but quickly discovered that unless you dropped in…
We’ve all been there—that moment when you realize you’re in way over your head. For me, it happened during my first briefing with a smart light vendor, when it became painfully obvious that I couldn’t…
All too often, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini overstep their instructions because they’re so focused on making you happy. For example, an AI may jump ahead and completely rewrite a document when all you wanted was…
It’s never a good idea to hand ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini big, vague tasks like “draw up a business plan for my new venture” or “act as my personal assistant.” Fuzzy prompts like those are…