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A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims
Buy-n-Shoot News"BANG — You hear coming from the hallway," reads the chatbot's opening message. "You look back at your friend, who is obviously shaken up from the gunshot, and is shaking in fear," reads a following message. "She covers her mouth with her now trembling hands." These messages were both sent by "School Shooting, " a bluntly-titled AI chatbot created to roleplay a deadly school shooting scenario. It's one of many school shooting-inspired AI characters hosted by Character.AI, the embattled AI chatbot company accused in two separate lawsuits of sexually and emotionally abusing minor users to the point of inflicting severe […]
