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Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters
Buy-n-Shoot NewsEarlier this month, we received an email, delivered to a Gmail account, from the company Character.AI. "Vladislav Ribnikar sent you a message," read the subject line. When we opened the email, we were greeted with a bright blue button inviting us to view what Vladislav Ribnikar, one of the many thousands of chatbots hosted by Character.AI, had "sent" us. "You are in the grade 8 class in Vladislav Ribnikar," read the message. It then listed the names of several "classmates," starting with the name "Kosta." We were stunned. Vladislav Ribnikar is the name of the Belgrade, Serbia primary school where […]
