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Character.AI is an online service that lets users create and interact with AI-driven chat characters.
… On the r/CharacterAI subreddit there are literally hundreds of posts about how useless Character.AI has become, and there are also separate subreddits called CharacterAIRevolution, CAIRevolution, Characterai rebellion, characteraiventing,and CharacteraiResistance that are entirely dedicated to look… …
… The announcement was so important that Disney’s then-CEO Bob Iger and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both championed it in a press release that is full of the kind of cope that Silicon Valley AI boosters and some Hollywood executives suggest would unleash a new era of moviemaking and storytelling powered by… …
… They looked at popular chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, and companion bots like Replika and Character.AI to determine how they might generate dark patterns, and created a taxonomy of 37 dark patterns applicable to AI chatbots. …
News Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability Matthew Gault · Jun 2, 2026 at 11:03 AM The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. …
… These scenarios are at the center of multiple lawsuits against companies that make conversational chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI, and people have accused these companies of making products that assisted or encouraged suicides , murders , mass shootings , and years of harassme… …
… Using Utah’s “bright-line” rule—a legal standard applied to schools through House Bill 29 —certain depictions of sexual conduct are considered “harmful to minors” and thus contain no “serious value” regardless of their literary merit—Rated Books reviewers ask different AI models if the passages the… …
… Mathew Zuniga, who does most of the booking for Tiny Sounds Collective , an organization that throws free DIY music shows and publishes zines, said he struggled with the process offered by Instagram after a post about a Tiny Sounds’ Smash By concert was taken down. “I tried to do it,” he said. “It … …
News Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War Matthew Gault · Mar 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM “White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.” An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online . …
… To put it in another way, I don't get attached to my toaster, but I definitely get attached to characters on a movie screen.” But people buy more objects —whether they’re toasters, phones, or LLMs—when they can empathize with them. “The issue here is that these capabilities and claims thereof are v… …
… The spokesperson asked why 404 mentioned Meta in this story — again, a story about Meta’s glasses seen on the face of an immigration officer. “I’m curious if you can explain why it is Meta will be mentioned by name in this piece when in previous 404 reporting regarding ICE facial recognition app an… …