Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.

A bot claiming to be Sweet Baby itself, made by a creator whose other Character.AI bots are overwhelmingly large-breasted anime characters, has conducted more than 10,000 chats.

A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely." A ...

While other chatbot platforms like Character.ai are probably more popular, Janitor AI certainly services a niche — and usually, that niche is NSFW content that some other platforms won’t allow.

Character chatbots are a prolific online safety threat, according to a new report on the dissemination of sexualized and violent bots via character platforms like the now infamous Character.AI.

A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists—was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform ...

Are Character AI’s chatbots protected speech? One court isn’t sure. A judge is “not prepared” to say companion chatbots should receive First Amendment protection.

Google reportedly faces a fresh Justice Department probe over whether it violated antitrust law through its partnership with artificial intelligence chatbot firm Character.AI.

Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday. Available in closed beta, the ...

Imagine an AI video chatbot you can interact with in real-time. Or if you could generate a custom "skin" for Siri, Gemini, or ChatGPT, anthropomorphizing these chatbots in a whole new way. This ...