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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, is ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...
Chatbots Show Signs of Anxiety, Study Finds
Using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, a common mental health assessment, researchers first had ChatGPT read a neutral vacuum cleaner manual, which resulted in a low anxiety score of 30.8 on a scale ...
Teen’s Suicide Turns Mother Against Google, AI Chatbot Startup
Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own life.
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ChatGPT gets ‘anxiety’ from violent user inputs, so researchers are teaching the chatbot mindfulness techniques to ‘soothe’ it
The chatbot can experience “anxiety” when it is given disturbing ... More than one in four people in the U.S. aged 18 or ...