Cut the words “please” and “thank you” from your next ChatGPT query and, if you believe some of the talk online, you might think you are helping save the planet. The idea sounds plausible because AI systems process text incrementally: longer prompts require slightly more computation and therefore use more energy. OpenAI’s chief executive Sam…
Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands of different queries — including one campaign that prompted Gemini more than 100,000 times. In a report published Thursday, Google said it has increasingly come under “distillation…
Following the recent launch of GPT-5, a significant number of users voiced their dissatisfaction with the new model’s writing style, leading OpenAI to bring back GPT-4o as an option. Users complained that GPT-5 felt “sterile” and “dumber” in comparison to its predecessor, with some even grieving the loss of what they considered a digital “friend…
France’s far-right National Rally party has accused authorities of a “new harassment campaign”, after police raided its headquarters in an inquiry into its campaign finances. Party president Jordan Bardella said the “spectacular and unprecedented operation” was a “serious attack on pluralism and democratic change”. Prosecutors said they were investigating potential acts of “fraud committed against…
