ZDNET's key takeaways AI chatbots learn more about us with every interaction.They can therefore tease out patterns in our ...

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When comparing ChatGPT 5.1 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, the former's tendency to list-making was almost annoying. Like, ...

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council through the Australian Laureate Fellowship project Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public ...

AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...

Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated "personality test" framework for popular AI chatbots, and have ...

You can prompt an AI model with a line of text, and it will generate most of the code needed to build an app, tool or website ...

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