Given that Character.AI can sometimes take a week to investigate and remove a persona that violates the platform’s terms, a bot can still operate for long enough to upset someone whose likeness is ...

In a surprising new gathering of voice actors, many well-known actors in the anime field ... use of generative AI,” the note reads. “For instance, if an AI generates a character with the ...

Character.AI, the hugely popular digital avatar startup, announced Thursday that users will now be able to hold real-time conversations with one of the company’s multitude of AI agents by ...

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on ... The most popular bots are anime or computer game characters like Raiden Shogun, which has ...

In broad strokes, the technology can seem relatively harmless, compared to other threats teens can encounter online, ...

Megan Garcia, Setzer’s mother, said Character.AI — the start-up behind the personalized ... 30s took his life after spending a few weeks talking to a chatbot called Eliza that uses GPT-J ...

According to The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III, a ninth grader from Orlando, spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI’s AI role-playing app. Setzer developed an emotional attachment ...

Using AI-powered platforms like Character.AI, Replika ... they should consider talking to them about AI companions as a "pretty urgent" matter. Teens particularly at risk for isolation may ...

Character.AI is being targeted in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform. According to The New York Times ...