All posts tagged: chats

How secure are the Commission’s group chats? – POLITICO

How secure are the Commission’s group chats? – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Bulgaria is heading towards another tight parliamentary election this month — and it wants the EU to help counter malign foreign interference. Haunted by memories of coordinated social media campaigns targeting other countries in the region, the government is concerned that Russian misinformation could sway public opinion ahead of the vote. Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, senior EU politics editor, discuss what tools Brussels has to counter foreign interference efforts.  Also on the show, a Signal group chat with European Commission officials has been shut down over security concerns. But this isn’t an isolated case, it’s part of a series of cyberattacks targeting the EU executive branch. Finally: We take a look at the Italian football fiasco that’s sparking a political row. Want to send us a message? You can reach us on our WhatsApp by clicking here or dialing +32 491 05 06 29. Source link

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

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When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just made it significantly easier for users of those other chatbots to defect to Gemini. On Thursday, the company announced what it calls “switching tools,” new widgets that are designed to allow users to transfer “memories” (basically chunks of personal information) and even entire chat histories from other chatbots directly into Gemini. Users can easily share “key preferences, relationships, and personal context” in this way, the company says. The idea is to make it significantly easier to adopt Google’s AI assistant, as users won’t have to spend large amounts of time re-training Gemini on who they are and what they want. The memory feature works like this: Gemini will suggest a prompt that the user can enter into their current chatbot, which will then generate a response that can be copied and pasted back into Gemini. In this fashion, Gemini coaches …

You can finally bring your ChatGPT and Claude chats to Gemini

You can finally bring your ChatGPT and Claude chats to Gemini

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If you grew tired of using ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI chatbot and wanted to bring your chats and memory over to another app, then you’d previously have to manually move over information or find some roundabout way to do so. However, Google is now making it extremely easy to import chats and even memory from other AI platforms to Gemini, and you can start doing it today. Related These Are the 4 Best AI Chatbots For Handling Big Conversations They don’t lose the thread when discussions get lengthy. Gemini makes it easy to import your chats Only do it if you’re ready to trust Gemini full-time This is just part of Google’s ongoing updates for Gemini, which includes a new model for Gemini Live that just launched this week. According to a new support document on the functionality, it only appears to support ChatGPT and Claude right now, at least if you want to move your chats over. Google says you’ll need to be signed in to a personal Google account, as work, …

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford University AI researcher Jared Moore, who last year published a study showing that chatbots specifically claiming to offer “therapy” frequently engaged in inappropriate and hazardous ways with simulated users showing clear signs of crisis. Conducted alongside a coalition of independent researchers and scientists at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Chicago, this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use. “Our previous work was in simulation,” Moore told Futurism. “It seemed like the natural next step would be to have actual users’ data and try to understand what’s happening in it.” These users’ chats encompassed a staggering 391, 562 messages across 4,761 different …

Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

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Sears department stores have largely disappeared across the United States, but the brand and its appliance repair service are still in business, complete with a modern twist: an AI chatbot and phone assistant named Samantha. As the historic retailer steps into the future, though, new research shows that conversations people had with the chatbot were publicly exposed online. Since Sears is still a trusted name but largely out of the public eye, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler was surprised and alarmed last month when he found three publicly exposed databases containing massive troves of chat logs, audio files, and text transcriptions of audio that contained personal details about Sears Home Services customers. The Home Services division claims to be the US’s “largest appliance repair service provider” and reports that it performs more than seven million repairs each year. The exposed Sears databases uncovered by Fowler, which have since been secured, contained 3.7 million chat logs, plus 1.4 million audio files and plain text transcripts from 2024 to this year. Fowler found that one CSV file about …

‘I never had those deep chats in the smoking area’: Arlo Parks on embracing late night life with her hedonistic new album | Arlo Parks

‘I never had those deep chats in the smoking area’: Arlo Parks on embracing late night life with her hedonistic new album | Arlo Parks

Published by Sam Flores

Until only a few years ago, Arlo Parks had never been clubbing. The lack of a party phase makes sense when you consider that while most of her friends were decamping to university at 18, Parks was busy bagging a record deal, releasing her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, a few months after her 20th birthday. “It’s something that I almost didn’t have time to think about,” she says, speaking from LA, where she has lived since 2022, and where she feels very much at home. (This morning has already consisted of gymming and a walk in 28-degree sunshine that’s as bright as her neon-red hair.) “But I definitely did come to the conclusion that I had missed out – I hadn’t really had the time to be silly and have crazy, deep conversations in the smoking area. To be in an anonymous space and feel like you’re part of this whole.” Now 25, she has very much made up for lost time with her third album, Ambiguous Desire – a paean to the night-time, …

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

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An 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that alarmed the company’s staff. Jesse Van Rootselaar’s chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the company’s LLM for misuse and banned in June 2025. Staff at the company debated whether or not to reach out to Canadian law enforcement over the behavior but ultimately did not, according to the Wall Street Journal. An OpenAI spokesperson said Van Rootselaar’s activity did not meet the criteria for reporting to law enforcement; the company reached out to Canadian authorities after the incident. “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Tumbler Ridge tragedy,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement. “We proactively reached out to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with information on the individual and their use of ChatGPT, and we’ll continue to support their investigation.” ChatGPT transcripts weren’t the only concerning part of Van Rootselaar’s digital footprint. She apparently created a game on Roblox, the world simulation platform frequented by children, …

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

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Just before 8am one day last April, an office manager who went by the name Amani sent out a motivational message to his colleagues and subordinates. “Every day brings a new opportunity—a chance to connect, to inspire, and to make a difference,” he wrote in his 500-word post to an office-wide WhatsApp group. “Talk to that next customer like you’re bringing them something valuable—because you are.” Amani wasn’t rallying a typical corporate sales team. He and his underlings worked inside a “pig butchering” compound, a criminal operation built to carry out scams—promising romance and riches from crypto investments—that often defraud victims out of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars at a time. The workers Amani was addressing were eight hours into their 15-hour night shift in a high-rise building in the Golden Triangle special economic zone in Northern Laos. Like their marks, most of them were victims, too: forced laborers trapped in the compound, held in debt bondage with no passports. They struggled to meet scam revenue quotas to avoid fines that deepened …

Your group chats might be terrible without you even realizing it

Your group chats might be terrible without you even realizing it

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Group chats should be simple: add everyone to a thread, and they can talk to each other. But this is rarely the case in reality—especially when your group contains a mix of iPhone and Android users. I recently had a bad group chat experience that didn’t have an obvious cause at first. You should know about this, because your group chats might also be suffering for no good reason. My group chat woes Is anyone getting this? I have a group chat with ~10 friends I play video games with on a regular basis. We’re a mixed-device group; as messaging apps like WhatsApp aren’t as common in the US, we unsurprisingly use a standard group chat in the default messages app. Despite the lack of modern features, this is usually fine. However, we recently had an issue where message delivery was all over the place. Some people wouldn’t get messages at all, or they’d see messages from certain folks but not others. Messages would arrive out of order, or many hours after they were sent. …