Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower. Similarweb, which estimates ...

June 14, 2025 at 4:00 a.m. PT GeorgePeters/Getty Images That chatbot you've been talking to every day for the last who-knows-how-many days? It's a sociopath. It will say anything to keep you engaged.

But the kind of chatbot answers that users like — the answers designed to retain them — may not necessarily be the most correct or helpful. AI telling you what you want to hear Much of Silicon ...

Romantic relationships with A.I. chatbots are commonplace enough that coverage has shifted to their tragic downsides. My newsroom colleague Kevin Roose reported on the death by suicide of the ...