SEDUCTIVE AI: The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends.

Related: Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows. “A new study in the journal Science found that AI models are far more sycophantic than a human friend or stranger. . . . ‘People who interacted with this over-affirming AI came away more convinced that they were right and less willing to repair the relationship, whether that meant apologizing, taking steps to improve things or changing their own behavior,’ Cheng said. Participants also preferred sycophantic AI, judging it to be trustworthy, no matter their age, personality or prior experience with the tech.”

If only there had been some sort of warning.

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