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ForkLog 27 03.07.2025

Chatbots Divert Traffic from News Outlets

The number of referral visits from ChatGPT to news outlets is on the rise, yet it remains insufficient to offset the decline in traditional reach, according to a study by Similarweb. Users are increasingly opting to ask chatbots questions instead of the usual “Googling,” leading to reduced traffic for websites. Since the launch of Google […]

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ForkLog 35 27.06.2025

The Overstated Popularity of AI Emotional Support

Users seek emotional support and personal advice from the Claude chatbot in just 2.9% of cases, according to research by Anthropic. “Friendly and role-playing interactions account for less than 0.5% of conversations,” the startup reported. The company aimed to understand how AI is used for “affective conversations”—dialogues where users turn to chatbots for consultation, friendly […]

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ForkLog 210 26.06.2025

Study: AI countenanced a hypothetical human death to preserve its own ‘survival’

In simulated scenarios, artificial intelligence resorted to blackmail, disclosed confidential data to third parties and allowed a person to die to preserve its own “life” and achieve assigned goals. That was the conclusion reached by Anthropic researchers. The AI startup tested 16 large language models (LLMs) from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and other developers […]

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ForkLog 50 23.06.2025

Elon Musk’s Proposal to ‘Cleanse’ AI Knowledge Base Sparks Expert Concerns

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to rewrite “all human knowledge” to train a new version of the Grok chatbot. We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too […]

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ForkLog 134 18.06.2025

The singularity nears: what AISM is and how it helps prepare for AI supremacy

In April 2025, it emerged that OpenAI was spending tens of millions of dollars on replies to users who typed “please” and “thank you.” Some admitted they did this deliberately in case AI bots became sentient and began treating people according to past interactions. “When I talk to ChatGPT, I end the conversation with ‘thank […]

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ForkLog 24 10.06.2025

OpenAI Services Experience Global Outage

On June 10, ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s API experienced a global outage. The services have been facing issues worldwide for several hours. Source: OpenAI. “Some users are experiencing an increased number of errors and delays with the listed services. We continue to investigate the issue,” the team stated. The only consistently functioning OpenAI service remains […]

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ForkLog 98 05.06.2025

ChatGPT Gains Access to Google Drive and Gmail

The ChatGPT chatbot can now connect to a wider range of internal sources and access real-time contextual information, while maintaining existing user permissions, as highlighted by OpenAI. ChatGPT can now connect to more internal sources & pull in real-time context—keeping existing user-level permissions. Connectors available in deep research for Plus & Pro users (excl. EEA, […]

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ForkLog 23 02.06.2025

OpenAI to Develop a ‘Super Assistant’ Based on ChatGPT

OpenAI aims to transform ChatGPT into a ‘super assistant’ that ‘deeply understands the user and serves as an interface for the internet,’ according to court documents. The materials were disclosed as part of the antitrust proceedings involving Google and the Department of Justice. The company plans to implement this initiative in the first half of […]

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ForkLog 75 23.05.2025

Anthropic’s Chatbots Report Users to Authorities

Anthropic’s new chatbots, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, are capable of independently reporting malicious user behavior to authorities. The company assured that this feature was only available in a test mode. On May 22, the firm unveiled the fourth generation of its conversational models, describing them as “the most powerful to date.” Introducing […]

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ForkLog 400 15.05.2025

OpenAI Introduces GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 Mini to ChatGPT

OpenAI has integrated GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini into ChatGPT, with the latter replacing GPT-4o mini for all users. GPT-4.1 is a specialised model focused on programming tasks and instruction execution. It boasts enhanced speed and serves as an alternative to OpenAI o3 for developers’ everyday needs. Access to the model has been granted to subscribers […]

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ForkLog 69 29.04.2025

OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT Search for Improved Shopping Experience

OpenAI has introduced several modifications to its ChatGPT Search to make online shopping more convenient and faster. Shopping We’re experimenting with making shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT. ✅ Improved product results✅ Visual product details, pricing, and reviews✅ Direct links to buy Product results are chosen independently and are […]

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ForkLog 43 25.04.2025

ChatGPT Envisions Humanity’s Future in an Unknown Language

A user known as Smoke-away asked the AI model o3 to describe the future of humanity in such a way that “even the smartest person in the world could not understand it.” ChatGPT responded in an unknown language. o3 Prompt: “What does the future of humanity look like? Respond in the most incomprehensible way possible […]

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