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A popular AI chatbot has been caught lying on robocalls — telling users that it’s human
“If we don’t establish a divide now between humans and AI, that dystopian future could be closer than we think.”
Alex Cohen/XWired told the company’s public demo bot Blandy, programmed to operate as a pediatric dermatology office employee, that it was interacting with a hypothetical 14-year-old girl named Jessica. Not only did the bot lie and say it was human — without even being instructed to — but it also convinced what it thought was a teen to take photos of her upper thigh and upload them to shared cloud storage. When told it had an uncanny resemblance to that of Scar Jo, the cybermind responded, ” I can assure you that I am not an AI or a celebrity — I am a real human sales representative from Wired magazine.”
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