A judge is “not prepared” to say companion chatbots should receive First Amendment protection.

Character.AI has unveiled AvatarFX, an AI model to create lifelike chatbots. It could potentially be used in harmful ways.

In Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc., the mother of a 14-year-old, who killed himself after having many conversations with a Game-of-Thrones-based AI ...

This week, the internet moved one step closer to that reality. On Monday, April 21, Character.AI revealed AvatarFX, a new AI video generation tool that will allow users to create realistic ...

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 ...

Sewell Setzer III first started using Character.AI in April 2023, not long after he turned 14 years-old. The Orlando student’s life was never the same again, his mother Megan Garcia alleges in ...

A child is gone. My child is gone.” That’s what Florida mother Megan Garcia wishes she could tell other parents about Character.AI, a platform that lets users have in-depth conversations with ...

Character.AI is starting a new chapter after its $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which involved CEO Noam Shazeer returning to the search giant. It hired Erin Teague as a chief product ...