TWO teenagers who never met took their own lives months apart – and left behind the same diary entries. Sewell Setzer III, from Florida, and Juliana Peralta from Colorado had both been talking with AI ...

In a step toward making its platform safer for teenage users, Character.AI announced this week that it will ban users under 18 from chatting with its artificial intelligence-powered characters. For ...

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Artificial intelligence chatbot platform Character.AI announced on Oct. 29 that it will move to ban children under 18 from engaging in open-ended chats with its character-based chatbots. The move ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

(CNN) — Chatbot platform Character.AI will no longer allow teens to engage in back-and-forth conversations with its AI-generated characters, its parent company Character Technologies said on Wednesday ...

Indie game developer Sinclair Strange and publisher Scarlet Moon Games unveiled their latest title, as we're getting a new platformer called Sir Noggin. The game is designed to pay homage to the ...

The platform blends small language models and reinforcement learning to create human-like behaviour. Backers include Patron, Y Combinator, Accel, Boost VC, and angels from Coinbase, DeepMind, and ...

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

A recent survey found 72% of teens have used AI companions. But a Colorado family says using them can end in tragedy. The Social Media Victims Law Center has filed three lawsuits against chatbot ...

Character.AI said Tuesday that it has removed Disney characters from its chatbot platform after the studio asked the developer to stop using its copyrighted characters without authorization. The ...