While offering open-ended character interaction, CrushOn AI remains committed to responsible platform design. Access to NSFW features is restricted to verified adult users, and the platform ...

There are some psychological factors that you need to consider when participating on Character.AI. For one, the addiction is ...

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Imagine an AI video chatbot you can interact with in real-time. Or if you could generate a custom "skin" for Siri, Gemini, or ChatGPT, anthropomorphizing these chatbots in a whole new way. This week, ...

Character.AI, known for bots that impersonate characters like Harry Potter, said Wednesday it will ban teens from using the chat function following lawsuits that blamed explicit chats on the app for ...

Grieving parents sued the Silicon Valley firm behind Character AI — the wildly popular app whose chatbots impersonate fictional characters like Harry Potter — claiming that the bots helped spark their ...

Character.AI is going social, adding an interactive feed to its mobile apps. Rolled out on Monday, the new social feed may initially look similar to traditional social media platforms. But rather than ...

Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday. Available in closed beta, the model ...

Character.AI says under-18 users will no longer be able to talk with chatbots. Credit: Joseph Maldonado/Mashable/Getty Images Character.AI, a popular chatbot platform where users role-play with ...

Children are losing themselves to frightening AI characters powered by large language model companies like Character.AI.