Chatgpt

Luxembourg study: empathetic prompts gave ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini moderate-to-severe anxiety scores: Researchers in Luxembourg found that empathetic prompts made ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with moderate-to-severe scores on clinical anxiety scales. They said this could put mentally vulnerable users at risk.

AI Safety • The Decoder

OpenAI to merge ChatGPT Chat and Work modes, moving Plus and Pro to token quotas in December: OpenAI is merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work modes into one interface; from December, Plus, Pro and Business plans will share a token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. Complex models use more quota, while simple instant chats do not count.

AI Business & Pricing • The Decoder

Researchers paid $5K for OpenAI ChatGPT share-link code-execution bug: Researchers were paid $5,000 for reporting an OpenAI bug that could run an attacker's code in logged-in sessions of anyone who opened a malicious ChatGPT share link, Swati Khandelwal of The Hacker News reported. The report said all users who opened the link were affected.

Cybersecurity • Techmeme

Washington Post tests: Copilot cited obscure AI-built voter site in 75% of tests: Washington Post tests found chatbots relied on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers. Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22%.

AI & Elections • Techmeme