There’s trouble in AI paradise. The advent of artificial intelligence chatbots has led some lonely lovers to find a friend in the digital realm to help them through hard times in the absence of human connection. However, highly personalized software that allows users to create hyper-realistic romantic partners is encouraging some bad actors to abuse their bots — and experts say that trend could be detrimental to their real-life relationships.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco.
One of the cowardly thugs who viciously beat 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz to death in a Bronx bodega was found dead at an upstate prison, state officials said.
And in Washington, hours before a tumultuous nearing-midnight vote on President Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, a Republican senator stood on the chamber floor and implored the plan’s critics, “Read the bill.”
