New report details how harmful AI chatbots are created and shared, despite supposed guardrails. Credit: Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Character chatbots are a prolific ...

Another family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against popular AI chatbot tool Character AI. This is the third suit of its kind after a 2024 lawsuit, also against Character AI, involving the ...

Character.AI has been hit with multiple lawsuits about the content it has generated, especially with younger users. There are also concerns about AI chat addiction and unauthorized depictions of real ...

A growing number of teens are turning to AI chatbots for advice and emotional support. Character.AI, an AI startup, is among tech companies grappling with legal and ethical issues after parents ...

There are a lot of AI chatbots out there, but Character.AI is an artificial intelligence chatbot with a difference. Unlike traditional chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, which are primarily for ...

Character.AI has launched what it calls the world’s first AI-native social feed, moving beyond static chat to a dynamic, content-first platform that lets users share, remix, and build on AI-driven ...

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...

Grieving parents sued the Silicon Valley firm behind Character AI — the wildly popular app whose chatbots impersonate fictional characters like Harry Potter — claiming that the bots helped spark their ...

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it is launching an inquiry into seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, ...