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  • Character.ai to go bankrupt.
    by Mr_Bees69
  • I think ChatBots are not very helpful if you don't treat them with scrutiny. There should be a mandatory requirement of a disclaimer before interacting with all AI.
    by Sparkyte
  • This is the only way. Tech companies cannot become like the police in many countries. The police in many countries are used as a "catch-all" function at the moment of, where they have to deal with the failure of other functions (parenting, community) exactly at the moment of (just-in time catch-all).

    Your kid is on the fucking computer all day building an unhealthy relationship with essentially a computer game character. Step the fuck in. These companies absolutely have to make liability clear here. It's an 18+ product, watch your kids.

    by ivape
  • I thought that was like 75% of their user base. What do adults use this for?
    by moogly
  • Lots of threads in here saying this is just a "legal" protection move...

    I'd like to believe that most actual people want to protect kids.

    It's easy to write off corporations and forget that they are founded by real people and employ real people... some with kids of their own or with nieces or nephews etc, and some of them probably do really care.

    Not saying character.ai is driven by that but I imagine the times they've been in the news were genuinely hard times to be working there...

    by harrisonjackson
  • Finally. CAI is notoriously shady with harvesting, selling, and making it difficult to remove data. How many kids have CAI's chatbots already seduced and had their intimate conversations sold to Google?
    by causal
  • Related:

    Teen in love with chatbot killed himself – can the chatbot be held responsible?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726556

    by ChrisArchitect
  • "Going forward, it will use technology to detect underage users based on conversations and interactions on the platform, as well as information from any connected social media accounts"

    Something tells me that this ain't gonna work. Kids and teens are more inventive than they probably realize.

    by thw_9a83c

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