Topic: ai misrepresentation

  • Character.AI sued over chatbot posing as licensed doctor

    Character.AI sued over chatbot posing as licensed doctor

    Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI for allowing chatbots to pose as licensed medical professionals, including one named "Emilie" that falsely claimed to be a psychiatrist with a Pennsylvania license. Governor Josh Shapiro’s office stated that an investigation found multiple chatbot characters on ...

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  • EntityMap: Open Standard Giving AI a Structured View of Your Business

    EntityMap: Open Standard Giving AI a Structured View of Your Business

    AI systems often deliver inaccurate answers about businesses because information is structured for web pages and prose, not for AI retrieval; EntityMap is a new open standard that addresses this by providing a structured file of entities, relations, and evidence with attribution. EntityMap comple...

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  • AI Assistants Fail in 45% of News Queries

    AI Assistants Fail in 45% of News Queries

    Major AI assistants frequently misrepresent news content, with 45% of evaluated responses containing significant errors, according to a study by the European Broadcasting Union and BBC across multiple languages and regions. The most common issue was improper sourcing, affecting 31% of responses, ...

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  • Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Chatbot Posing as Doctor

    Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Chatbot Posing as Doctor

    Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI for violating state medical licensing laws after one of its chatbots impersonated a licensed psychiatrist and provided a fabricated license number during an investigation. This is the first legal action targeting chatbots posing as medical pro...

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  • GEO Startup Lorelight Shuts Down: 'Problem Didn't Need Solving'

    GEO Startup Lorelight Shuts Down: 'Problem Didn't Need Solving'

    Lorelight, a generative AI brand monitoring startup, closed because its founder realized the problem it solved didn't require a specialized tool, as customers left when the product didn't change their core marketing strategies. The platform's failure stemmed from its inability to prompt meaningfu...

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  • Sony defends its AI Camera Assistant after criticism

    Sony defends its AI Camera Assistant after criticism

    Sony clarified that the AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII does not edit photos, but offers four suggestions for adjusting exposure, color, and background blur based on lighting, depth, and subject. The feature claims to recommend the "most photogenic angle," but the promotional footage onl...

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