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Instagram Might Be Building a Customisable AI ‘Friend’ to Fill the Empty Feed in Your Life
Nothing gives best friend energy quite like silicon and some 1’s and 0’s. Fresh off the heels of Meta’s dystopian AI influencers modelled after real celebrities, the social networking platform Instagram is reportedly working on its own customizable artificial intelligence friends. Code sleuth Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted screenshots of the Instagram interfaces showing the AI on…
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A Mental Health App Tested ChatGPT on Its Users, The Founder Said Backlash Was Just a Misunderstanding
The AI chat bot ChatGPT can do a lot of things. It can respond to tweets, write science fiction, plan this reporter’s family Christmas, and it’s even slated to act as a lawyer in court. But can a robot provide safe and effective mental health support? A company called Koko decided to find out using the…