{"ID":2883847,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08143","arxiv_id":"2508.08143","title":"AI Gossip","abstract":"Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini routinely make things up. They \"hallucinate\" historical events and figures, legal cases, academic papers, non-existent tech products and features, biographies, and news articles. Recently, some have argued that these hallucinations are better understood as bullshit. Chatbots produce rich streams of text that look truth-apt without any concern for the truthfulness of what this text says. But can they also gossip? We argue that they can. After some definitions and scene-setting, we focus on a recent example to clarify what AI gossip looks like before considering some distinct harms -- what we call \"technosocial harms\" -- that follow from it.","short_abstract":"Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini routinely make things up. They \"hallucinate\" historical events and figures, legal cases, academic papers, non-existent tech products and features, biographies, and news articles. Recently, some have argued that these hallucinations are better understood a...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08143","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08143v1","authors":"[\"Joel Krueger\",\"Lucy Osler\"]","published":"2025-08-11T16:16:36Z","proceeding":"cs.CY","tasks":"[\"cs.CY\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}