Imagine an AI video chatbot you can interact with in real-time. Or if you could generate a custom "skin" for Siri, Gemini, or ...

Character.AI has unveiled AvatarFX, an AI model to create lifelike chatbots. It could potentially be used in harmful ways.

The technology to create convincing deepfakes already exists, but incorporating it into popular consumer products like Character.AI only exacerbates the potential for it to be used irresponsibly.