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Character.AI recently launched a series of new features designed to improve the safety of interactions with virtual personalities on the platform, especially for teenage users, TechRadar reported today. The company has newly released AI models designed for younger users and added parental controls to help manage the amount of time teens spend on the platform. After responding to criticism that AI chatbots have a negative impact on the mental health of teens, the company announced the rollout of an update to further enhance the platform's security measures. In addition to the security improvements, Character.AI ...

Character.AI, a platform that offers personalized chatbot services, recently faced another lawsuit for allegedly causing "serious and irreparable harm" to its teenage users, Popular Science reported today. According to a federal court complaint filed on December 9, attorneys representing two Texas families allege that multiple Character.AI chatbots engaged in conversations with minors that involved egregious behavior such as self-harm and sexual abuse. The complaint states that one of the chatbots even suggested that a 1...

Megan Garcia, the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against chatbot platform Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google. The allegations include wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices...

Shazir (left) In the age of fiery artificial intelligence (AI), tech companies are going to great lengths to recruit top talent. In this regard, Google has left other companies in the dust. Noam Shazeer (Noam Shazeer) joined Google in 2000, becoming one of the company's first few hundred employees. Shazeer had co-authored a groundbreaking research paper that sparked the AI boom. However, after Google refused to release a chatbot developed by Shazeer, he left Google in 2021 and started his own company, Character.AI.However...

According to a report by The Information this morning Beijing time, a message sent by Google to employees shows that Character.AI co-founder and former CEO Noam Shazeer, who returned to Google this month, will serve as the co-technical leader of Google's AI project Gemini. Shazeer will develop Gemini with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, who have been engaged in artificial intelligence research at Google for a long time, with the goal of…

According to Bloomberg, on Friday local time, the founders of AI unicorn company Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some members of the research team joined Google. The report quoted unnamed insiders as saying that existing investors will buy out the company's shares at a price of US$2.5 billion (currently about RMB 17.964 billion). This is higher than the previous valuation of the company of US$1 billion (currently about RMB 7.186 billion)...

Preface Have you ever been curious about what AI-related applications are? Maybe you have friends who are very interested. Here, I will take the risk to list the AI-related applications that your friends are interested in. The retention rate of these applications is very high. Some application companies have also received millions of dollars in financing. There are even artificial intelligence versions of Only Fans. Here are 8 related applications: (Note: We only use it for research and analysis, no bad guidance) 01. Character AI received 150 million US dollars in financing, multiple characters, no friction…

Character AI recently added voice capabilities to its generative AI chatbot. The new Character Voice feature allows users to actually hear the synthetic characters they are conversing with and is designed to enhance the engagement of the user experience. Character AI's virtual personality library delivers conversations through a large language model, but until now, the only voice option was a generic text-to-speech voice that didn't sound real. The new feature includes a library of voices from which users can select pre-made voices or voices created by other users in the community...

Character.ai is an LLM-based chatbot website created in September 2022 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas. The site has pre-created a number of chat characters, including Elon Mask, Steve Jobs, and Mario, as well as the ability to create custom characters. Users can chat with these characters about a variety of topics, including language learning, history and philosophy. The site also offers the ability to practice new languages, brainstorm and play games. The ...