Graphika’s investigation identified at least 10,000 AI chatbots that were directly advertised as sexualized, minor-presenting personas, including ones that called to APIs for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini LLMs.
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Research from Graphika details how a range of online communities are creating AI personalities that can blur reality for lonely individuals, particularly teenagers.
An amended complaint identifies a number of overseas individuals as key players “at the center of a global cybercrime network” that sold access to jailbroken generative AI…
Then-National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone arrives for a closed-door hearing in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in 2023. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on January 27, 2025. Chinese firm DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store’s download charts, stunning industry insiders and analysts with its ability to match its US competitors. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
A photo taken on March 31, 2023 in Manta, near Turin, shows a computer screen with the home page of the artificial intelligence OpenAI web site, displaying its chatGPT robot. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)
An Iranian flag is carried around the Azadi (Freedom) monument tower during the annual rally commemorating Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
A mobile billboard, deployed by Accountable Tech, is seen outside the Meta headquarters on Jan. 17, 2023, in Menlo Park, Calif. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Accountable Tech)
Letters sent to Sen. Warner and shared exclusively with CyberScoop show platforms’ approach to AI and elections following calls that they aren’t doing enough.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (2nd L), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3rd L) and US President Joe Biden (4th L) listen to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they join a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
Supporters of President Donald Trump demonstrate at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in front of the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 7, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)