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After announcing this last month Prevent teenagers From having open conversations with AI chatbots, Personality.AI This week introduced a new way to interact with AI-powered characters. You can now choose some characters, choose a type, and create guide stories.
Think of the concept as a kind of Choose your own adventure A book for the age of artificial intelligence. Instead of turning the page on a pre-written tale, you’re telling a larger linguistic model where it should go next.
Character.AI framed the move as a way to let kids get entertained by interacting with their favorite AI robots. (The platform has a set of custom “characters” with different traits and “personalities” for people to interact with.) People under the age of 18 are no longer able to have open conversations with bots on the platform.
The company implemented age restrictions after it and other AI platforms came under scrutiny for harmful interactions children had with chatbots. The companies have been sued several times this year by parents of teens who died by suicide after discussing self-harm using artificial intelligence models. This includes OpenAI, the maker of the industry-leading ChatGPT software, which I submitted a response This week in Lawsuit filed by Adam Ren’s parents. Ryan’s parents claim he died by suicide after repeated interactions with ChatGPT where the AI continued to engage with him and offer advice on ways to harm himself. OpenAI said it has increased safety barriers in its AI models, especially for under-18s.
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The changes made by Character.AI are more comprehensive. CEO Karandeep Anand told CNET in October that the move toward more carefully designed role-playing games and videos will provide teens with a better experience of conversations.
The Stories feature released this week allows anyone to create role-playing interactions with familiar characters that can be replayed and shared. “By offering a narrative-first visual format, our platform continues to support types of creativity beyond open chat,” Character.AI said in a post. Blog post Announcement of the feature.
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