The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday, July 3, edition that artificial-intelligence chatbots know how to lie, issue partisan messages and can even offer suicide advice. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe reports that to mitigate the tools' most obvious dangers, companies such as Google and Microsoft-backed OpenAI have added controls that limit what the tools can say. Now, a new wave of chatbots are coming on-line without many of those guardrails, under names such as GPT4All and FreedomGPT. Many were created for little or no money by independent programmers or groups of volunteers, who successfully replicated the methods first described by AI researchers. Only a few groups made their models from the ground up. Most groups work from existing language models, only adding extra instructions to tweak how the technology responds to prompts. Misinformation watchdogs, already wary of how mainstream chatbots can spew falsehoods, have raised alarms about how unmoderated chatbots will supercharge the threat. These models could produce descriptions of child pornography, hateful screeds or false content, experts warned. One observer says, "Chatbots can and will say anything if left to their own devices."