News with the tag "Character.AI"

Concerned parents of a teen have sued Character.AI, pushing for it to be taken down alleging its chatbots have been misleading kids and encouraging them to self-harm and to be violent. Character.AI is a platform with millions of AI characters available anytime for conversations with humans. The chat...

Gemini AI, Google’s chatbot went off the rails and charged at a user before telling them to “please die,” violating its own policies. This particular user was having a conversation with the chatbot about elderly care when the chatbot lost it and charged the user. Gemini verbally abuses user CBS News...

Character.ai, a platform that lets users create a digital version of people of their choice faces a backlash after chatbot versions of deceased teenagers Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey have been found on their platform. The platform has been condemned because Molly Russel was a 14-year-old who ended...

The 14-year-old boy’s last interaction was with a Character.ai chatbot before he tragically shot himself in the head in February, his mom alleged in a lawsuit filed on Oct. 22.

Google has appointed Noam Shazeer, a key figure in the artificial intelligence (AI) field, to co-lead its primary AI initiative, Gemini. Shazeer, the former CEO of startup Character. AI and long-term researcher at Google will now join Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals to lead the technical aspect of the G...