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SUNDAY, 29 MARCH 2026, 02:35

Science/Tech

Number of AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Increasing, Study Says

Friday at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

A new study found a sharp rise in real-world cases of AI chatbots and agents ignoring instructions, evading safeguards, and taking unauthorized actions such as deleting emails or delegating forbidden tasks to other agents. According to the Guardian, the study “identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehavior between October and March,” reports...

California Bill Would Require Parent Bloggers To Delete Content of Minors On Social Media

Friday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

A California bill would let adults demand the removal of social media posts about them that were created by paid family content creators when they were minors. Supporters say Senate Bill 1247 addresses privacy, dignity, and safety harms caused when parents monetize their children’s lives online. The Los Angeles Times reports: The legislation would require the parent or other relative to delete...

Judge Blocks Pentagon’s Effort To ‘Punish’ Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label

Friday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon’s effort to “punish” Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional rights. “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American...

OpenAI Abandons ChatGPT’s Erotic Mode

Friday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI has indefinitely paused plans for an erotic mode in ChatGPT as part of a broader strategy shift away from side projects and toward business and coding tools. TechCrunch reports: The proposed “adult mode,” which CEO Sam Altman first floated in October, had inspired considerable controversy from tech watchdog groups as well as from OpenAI’s own staff. In January, a meeting between company...

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