{"id":227679,"date":"2025-12-23T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/feral-ai-gossip-with-the-potential-to-spread-damage-and-shame-will-become-more-frequent-researchers-warn"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:27:55","slug":"feral-ai-gossip-with-the-potential-to-spread-damage-and-shame-will-become-more-frequent-researchers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/feral-ai-gossip-with-the-potential-to-spread-damage-and-shame-will-become-more-frequent-researchers-warn","title":{"rendered":"Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feral-ai-gossip-with-the-potential-to-spread-damage-and-shame-will-become-more-frequent-researchers-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeral\u201d gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini don\u2019t just make things up\u2014they generate and spread gossip, complete with negative evaluations and juicy rumors that can cause real-world harm, according to new analysis by philosophers Joel Krueger and Lucy Osler from the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s10676-025-09871-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Ethics and Information Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFeral\u201d gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini don\u2019t just make things up\u2014they generate and spread gossip, complete with negative evaluations and juicy rumors that can cause real-world harm, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}