WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy

Meta announced Wednesday that it will charge developers for running chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. The move comes after the company’s ban on third-party chatbots on WhatsApp took effect on January 15.  For now, Meta will charge developers in Italy, where the country’s competition watchdog asked…

Read More
No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is anyway

No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is anyway

In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub.   She’s a Pro subscriber and uses the service in “best” mode, meaning it chooses which underlying model to tap from among…

Read More