The report analyzed five prominent bot-creation and character card-hosting platforms (Character.AI, Spicy Chat, Chub AI, CrushOn.AI, and JanitorAI), as well as eight related Reddit communities and ...

The investigation will assess whether Character.AI — and other platforms that are popular with young people, including Reddit, Instagram, and Discord — conform to Texas’ child privacy and ...

Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.

A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely." A ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has put tech companies on notice over child privacy and safety concerns -- after a terrifying new lawsuit claimed that the highly popular Character.AI app pushed ...

Character’s AI statement after tragedy of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer “We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of one of our users and want to express our deepest condolences to the family ...

The Texas attorney general on Thursday announced an investigation into Character.ai, an artificial intelligence chatbot company popular with younger users, as well as 14 other tech companies ...

Character.ai is a popular app for chatting with bots. Its millions of chatbots, most created by users, all play different roles. Some are broad: general-purpose assistants, tutors, or therapists ...

On the heels of an OpenAI controversy over deleted posts, Reddit sued Anthropic on Wednesday, accusing the AI company of "intentionally" training AI models on the "personal data of Reddit ...

Character.AI has an age restriction of 13, and 16 for users in the EU. Character.AI/CNET. Moderation challenges have also led to legal issues because much of its content is user-generated.