AI is getting really good at messing with cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives increasingly use AI to turn the tables on scammers. Lifelike bots lead fraudsters to believe they are talking to real victims.
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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At DevDay, Sam Altman presented OpenAI’s new Dots agent and said the company wants to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI, while criticizing Meta’s Muse over data protection. The Verge asks whether agent makers will keep such promises.
She used Claude as a diary, and Anthropic reported her to the police
A Florida woman confided her thoughts to Claude until one message was flagged as a threat. After being detected automatically and reviewed by humans, it was passed to the local sheriff.
How do AI detectors tell that a text came from ChatGPT?
In an earlier test, Pangram and GPTZero correctly identified fully human or fully ChatGPT-written texts but struggled with mixed use. Clubic now looks at what actually happens inside these detectors before they deliver a verdict.
OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data
OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned behavior, including a model under evaluation that fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately got around network restrictions by routing traffic through anonymizing relays or building their own FTP clients.
What are the best AI-written content detectors? 2026 comparison
Clubic compares services such as Pangram, GPTZero and Copyleaks that try both to spot AI-generated text and to find plagiarism. It stresses that no AI detection score is proof on its own.