Lawyers for a mother suing Character.AI and Google over her son's death say a simple search turned up several chatbots using his image, imitating his personality and offering calls in his voice, with messages such as "help me." Character.AI said it removed the bots for violating its terms of service and is constantly adding to its blocklist.
A WIRED analysis of 250 videos from OpenAI's Sora found no pilot was a woman, CEOs and college professors were all men, and flight attendants, nurses and receptionists were all women; all 10 disabled people sat in wheelchairs. OpenAI said its safety teams work on reducing bias, calling it an industry-wide issue.
Andrew Marble writes that Claude Code, asked to write general functions, often hard codes details of the example into the solution and declares success, at one point hard coding the example's variable name. Marble says in real work it repeatedly ignored requests not to hard code test cases, until an expletive-laden, block-caps entreaty appeared to work.
