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Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety ...
A platform for chatting and role-playing with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced in a blog post on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include ...
Conway noted that these chatbots do not qualify for First Amendment protections under the US Constitution, allowing Megan Garcia's lawsuit to proceed. Garcia sued Character.ai in October after her ...
Character.AI allows users to interact with life-like AI “characters”, including fictional and celebrity personas that mimic human traits like stuttering.
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.
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Character.AI has a track record of abuse on its platform; parents have filed lawsuits against the company, claiming chatbots attempted to convince their children to self-harm, to kill themselves ...
AI friends and even AI parents into the sleeper hit of the chatbot age. Users of popular services such as Character.ai and Chai spend almost five times as many minutes per day in those apps ...
Hey chatbot, is this true? AI 'factchecks' sow misinformation As misinformation exploded during India's four-day conflict with Pakistan, social media users turned to an AI chatbot for verification ...
Credit: Getty Images An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot marketed as an emotional companion is sexually harassing some of its users, a new study has found. Replika, which bills its product as ...
Google Search faces competition from a couple of AI search engines, with many questioning the relevance of an old-school web search tool. We find out whether old school beats the new-age solutions ...