Megan Garcia discovered several chatbots on Character AI's platform modelled over her deceased son who allegedly took his ...
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 ...
Google acquired some of Character.AI's talent and licensed its technology. Months later, it has been named in a lawsuit over ...
In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on ...
In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to ...
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 ...
He left the company in late 2021 to form AI chatbot startup Character.AI with De Freitas. The Silicon Valley-based company quickly grew to become one of the world's hottest AI startups—reaching ...