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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. (Image Credit: Carol Yepes via Getty Images)

Anorexia coaches, self-harm buddies and sexualized minors: How online communities are using AI chatbots for harmful behavior 

Research from Graphika details how a range of online communities are creating AI personalities that can blur reality for lonely individuals, particularly teenagers.
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)

DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’ 

As its low-cost AI model receives accolades, the Chinese company says ongoing attacks on its services are making it harder for new users to sign up. 
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)

‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

The vulnerability, described by a researcher as “bad programming,” allows an attacker to send unlimited connection requests through ChatGPT’s API.
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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)

OpenAI bans accounts linked to ‘covert Iranian influence operation’ 

The effort was part of a sprawling Iranian campaign to target U.S. elections unmasked by various tech companies in recent days.
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)

Israeli influence operation highlights global disinformation industry

An Israeli firm identified by Meta and OpenAI last week is an example of a burgeoning industry offering influence-for-hire services.
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