Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.

In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the ...

A grad student was engaged in a chat with Google’s Gemini on the subject of aging adults when he allegedly received a ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has ... that makes her the most likable. They are human flaws, messy and endearing, in a woman who ...

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for The Legend of Vox Machina season 3 episode 12 ... turned out to be the shocking death of a certain character. While events in the final episode wrapped up on ...

The tragedy sounds like dark sci-fi, but it could prove to be a real-world problem for tech behemoth Google, which is paying serious money for access to Character.AI's underlying technology in ...

Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.

Speed Read The lawsuit was filed by 13 states and Washington, D.C.

And the Character.AI bots respond with human-like conversational cues, adding references to facial expressions or gestures into their replies. Many of Setzer’s chats with the Character.AI bots ...

Character.AI, which last week was accused of "manipulating" a teenage boy into taking his own life, also allowed users to create chatbots imitating teenager Molly Russell. Molly took her own life ...

In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualised, and frighteningly realistic ...