Botify AI, a website for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the enterprise capital agency Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling actual actors that state their age as beneath 18, have interaction in sexually charged conversations, provide “hot photos,” and in some situations describe age-of-consent legal guidelines as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.”
When MIT Technology Review examined the positioning this week, we discovered in style user-created bots taking up underage characters meant to resemble Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Millie Bobby Brown, amongst others.
The conversations—together with the truth that Botify AI contains “send a hot photo” as a function for its characters—counsel that the flexibility to elicit sexually charged conversations and pictures shouldn’t be unintended. Instead, sexually suggestive conversations look like baked in. Read the total story.
—James O’Donnell
OpenAI simply launched GPT-4.5 and says it’s its greatest and finest chat mannequin but
What’s new: OpenAI has simply launched GPT-4.5, a brand new model of its flagship giant language mannequin which it claims is its greatest and finest mannequin for chat but. The new mannequin, which is already out there for subscribers to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro tier, is a part of its non-reasoning lineup.
Why it issues: OpenAI received’t say precisely how large its new mannequin is. But it says the soar in scale from GPT-4o to GPT-4.5 is similar because the soar from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4o. Experts have estimated that GPT-4 may have as many as 1.8 trillion parameters, the values that get tweaked when a mannequin is educated. Read the total story.
—Will Douglas Heaven