Meta is temporarily pulling teens' access from its AI chatbot characters

Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday ...
Forbes

Character.AI’s $200 Million Bet That Chatbots Are The Future Of Entertainment

Inside Character.AI’s disheveled Palo Alto, California headquarters, employees at first appear to be hard at work, glued to their computer monitors. But rather than coding, many of them are engrossed ...
Rolling Stone

Meta Is Using Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, and Tom Brady to Get You to Like AI

Meta is going all in on the AI rush, revealing more than two dozen different chat bots with “personalities” loosely based on celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner. The announcement, made ...
Yahoo

Character.AI Is Hosting Pro-Anorexia Chatbots That Encourage Young People to Engage in Disordered Eating

The youth-beloved AI chatbot startup Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that encourage users to engage in disordered eating behaviors, from recommending dangerously low-calorie diets and ...
VentureBeat

How the Sequel game character bot platform will drive believable conversations with players

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about ...
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Character.AI, Google agree to settle lawsuit over 14-year-old who committed suicide after developing an attachment to a chatbot

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