Chatbot Platform

AI, a chatbot platform, launched a new feature called "Parental Insights" on March 26, which allows teenage users to send weekly reports on their chat usage to their parents' inboxes. According to the official announcement, the reports include the average daily time spent on web and mobile, the most frequently interacted characters and their chat time, in response to concerns about minors' addiction to chatbots and exposure to inappropriate content. The feature is optional and parents do not need to sign up for an account, and underage users can register at Character.AI ...

Character.AI, a platform that offers personalized chatbot services, recently faced another lawsuit for allegedly causing "serious and irreparable harm" to its teenage users, Popular Science reported today. According to a federal court complaint filed on December 9, attorneys representing two Texas families allege that multiple Character.AI chatbots engaged in conversations with minors that involved egregious behavior such as self-harm and sexual abuse. The complaint states that one of the chatbots even suggested that a 1...

Megan Garcia, the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against chatbot platform Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google. The allegations include wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices...