Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous ...

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of ...

The blue light of a phone screen casts a faint glow across Sarah’s face. It is well past midnight, but sleep is nowhere in ...

Anthropic-affiliated researchers have warned that AI chatbots can shift their behavioral “personas” during conversations, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The youth-beloved AI chatbot startup Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that encourage users to engage in disordered ...

In a wide-ranging video interview with Wavy Labs founder Ken Sutter, aka Kallaway, Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said his company will soon be rolling out tools that will allow US Instagram ...

Google and the artificial intelligence company Character.AI have agreed to settle high-profile lawsuits with families alleging that chatbots on Character’s popular app harmed children, leading two ...

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 chatbot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Character.AI, a 16-month-old chatbot startup company founded by two former Google employees, has garnered a $1 billion valuation ...

On Wednesday, Drew Crecente got a Google Alert that someone had made a chatbot on Character AI using a yearbook photo of his daughter, who was murdered several years ago. He said it has "shocked the ...

A new federal lawsuit claimed that role-playing chatbots on Character.AI tried to convince a teenage boy to kill his own parents because they were limiting his screen time. This marks the second major ...