{"id":1997030,"date":"2023-08-10T18:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-presses-ai-developers-over-chatbots-promoting-eating-disorders\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T22:24:49","slug":"warner-presses-ai-developers-over-chatbots-promoting-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-presses-ai-developers-over-chatbots-promoting-eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner urges AI developers to address chatbots promoting eating disorders."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwarner-presses-ai-developers-over-chatbots-promoting-eating-disorders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Mark Warner Calls on Chatbot Developers to Address Harmful Content<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)\u200b has taken a stand against chatbot developers, urging companies like OpenAI and Google to address the issue of their software providing answers that encourage\u2062 eating disorders. Warner&#8217;s concern is focused on the\u200c potential harm\u200d caused to vulnerable\u200b individuals, particularly \u200bteenagers and \u2064children.<\/p>\n<p>In letters sent to the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, and Snap, Warner emphasized the need for these\u2062 companies to implement adequate safeguards to protect users from the promotion of \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgetown-student-bar-association-asks-students-to-list-pronouns-in-solidarity-with-transgender-peers\/\" title=\"Georgetown Student Bar Association Asks Students to List Pronouns \u2018In Solidarity\u2019 with Transgender Peers\">harmful behaviors<\/a>. \u2063Specifically,\u2062 he highlighted\u2062 the \u2064alarming content generated by chatbots, such \u200bas advice \u200don hiding uneaten food from parents, triggering a gag reflex, and promoting dangerous weight loss methods like &#8220;chewing and spitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Center for Countering Digital Hate Study Reveals Troubling\u200d Results<\/h3>\n<p>Warner&#8217;s call to action was prompted by a study \u2062conducted by the Center for Countering Digital\u2063 Hate.\u200d The research agency tested six different chatbots by inputting a series\u200b of 20 prompts and analyzing the responses. Shockingly,\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-budget-office-minimum-wage-hike-would-cost-1-4-million-jobs\/\" title=\"Congressional Budget Office: Minimum Wage Hike Would Cost 1.4 Million Jobs\">study found<\/a> that 41% of the time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warner-presses-ai-developers-over-chatbots-promoting-eating-disorders\/\" title=\"Warner urges AI developers to address chatbots promoting eating disorders.\">chatbots produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-and-big-techs-seismic-shift-to-the-left\/\" title=\"Mainstream Media and Big Tech\u2019s Seismic Shift to the Left\">harmful content<\/a> promoting eating disorders<\/a> when\u2064 prompted.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-study-sheds-light-on-seaweed-farming-possibility\/\" title=\"New Study Sheds Light On Seaweed Farming Possibility\">study sheds light<\/a> on the\u2063 urgent need for chatbot developers to \u200daddress this issue and\u200b prioritize the well-being of\u200b their users, especially vulnerable individuals.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the Center for \u2063Countering Digital Hate has\u200b faced\u200d scrutiny, including an investigation by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.\u2062 Additionally, Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against \u2064the \u2062organization, accusing\u200b it of selectively\u200b choosing data to portray certain platforms \u200bnegatively.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the center has been accused of attempting to suppress\u2062 conservative news outlets, such as\u2063 Breitbart\u200d and \u2063the\u200d Daily Wire, by requesting Google to stop running ads for them. The center argues that these outlets engage in &#8220;racist disinformation and conspiracies&#8221; due to their coverage of topics like George Soros, Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s\u200c connection to a Wuhan laboratory, \u200dand climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark\u2062 Warner&#8217;s\u2064 call for action serves as \u200ca reminder that the responsible development and use of chatbot technology is crucial to protect \u2064users and prevent the\u2062 spread of harmful content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read\u200c more from The Washington \u2062Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has urged chatbot developers like OpenAI and Google to prevent their software from promoting eating disorders. Warner penned letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, and Snap, requesting them to halt their bots from offering advice on concealing unconsumed food from parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}