Teen’s mom sues Character.ai, alleging sexed-up bots led to son’s death
AI companion chatbot company Character.ai has been sued by the mother of a teenage son after his suicide, blaming the ...
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What Is Character.AI? Everything to Know About the Role-Playing AI Tool
The chatbot that lets you have surprisingly realistic conversations with AI-generated personas of athletes, celebrities and politicians has had its fair share of controversies. We walk you through ...
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That's a defense, all right.
In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to ...
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Character.AI put in new underage guardrails after a teen's suicide. His mother says that's not enough.
Ever since the death of her 14-year-old son, Megan Garcia has been fighting for more guardrails on generative AI. Garcia sued Character.AI in October after her son, Sewell Setzer III, died by ...
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It's marketing this stuff directly to kids.
In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on ...
AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters
Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted ...