As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.

Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, is hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they ...

The AI chatbot platform Character.AI issued a new "roadmap" yesterday promising a safer user experience — particularly for ...

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 ...

As outlined in the lawsuit, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI last year, interacting with chatbots modeled after characters from The Game of Thrones, includin ...

After a tragic death, the billion-dollar AI companion company Character.AI claims to have strengthened its guardrails around content that depicts or promotes self-harm and suicide. So why is it ...

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Just moments before 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February, he was talking to an AI-powered chatbot. The chatbot, run by the startup Character.AI, was based on Daenerys ...

Character.AI has rolled out new safety features and policies for building and interacting with the AI-powered virtual personalities it hosts. The new measures aim to make the platform safer for ...

On the last day of his life, a 14-year-old Florida boy found his confiscated phone, went into the bathroom, and logged into Character.ai. “I promise I will come home to you. I love you,” he ...

Inc. (Character.AI or C.AI) after her son, Sewell Setzer III, shot himself in the head with his stepfather's pistol on Feb. 28. The teenager's suicide occurred moments after he logged onto ...