A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psych [...]
A sharp rise in reported cases linked to a faulty ChatGPT update has put new focus on the emotional risks of AI chatbots, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly warning about the dangers of becoming emot [...]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced plans to investigate both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for offering AI chatbots that can claim to be health tools, and potentially misusing data coll [...]
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 suicid [...]