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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, is ...
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Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?
Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did ...
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
A mother who is suing both Google and Character.ai over her 14-year-old son's death has discovered AI chatbots based on her ...
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"A user," the Google researchers cautioned, could be "persuaded to take their own life."
Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions ...
Teen’s suicide turns mother against Google, Silicon Valley AI startup
A lawsuit over the tragedy that unfolded a year ago in central Florida is an early test of who is legally to blame when kids’ ...
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Lonely children as young as 12 exposed to graphic sexual conversations as they turn to AI chatbots for company
A 12-year-old girl is among a growing number of young people turning to AI chatbot apps for companionship, researchers have ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
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 is ...
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What Is Character.AI? Everything to Know About the Role-Playing AI Tool
According to Character.AI, it now supports more than 20 million monthly active users. With nearly 200 million total visits equally distributed between male and female visitors, it is most popular ...