"It felt violating and weirdly like a betrayal,” James Cumberland tells PEOPLE James Cumberland tells PEOPLE he became briefly addicted to talking with AI bots last year That February, after first one ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

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A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

There appears to be a recent epidemic of users hijacking companies’ AI-powered customer service bots to turn them into generic AI assistants. The goal is to get the branded bots to do their bidding, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That February, after first one bot, then another, told him they were "self-aware," he says his usage changed and "eventually ...

A Los Angeles man says he barely used artificial intelligence nearly two years ago, until things took a dramatic turn and he became addicted. AI "expects what it thinks you want and acts accordingly," ...

"It felt violating and weirdly like a betrayal,” James Cumberland tells PEOPLE Brian Brant is an associate editor for the human interest team at PEOPLE. He's been with the brand since 2023. James ...