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Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them


Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

Drew’s brother, Brian Crecente, who happens to be a founder of the gaming news websites Polygon and Kotaku, flagged the Character.AI bot on his Twitter account and called it “ fucking disgusting.” Its opening line is “Hey, got woke?” and describes itself as an “extremist radical narrative development and consultation studio.” Character.AI did not address direct questions about the Sweet Baby bot and if it violates the company’s terms of service. “It’s well past time we replaced it with some kind of notice and takedown regime, a simple expedient system to say, ‘This is infringing on my rights to publicity,’ or ‘I have a good faith belief that there’s been an infliction of emotional distress,’ and then the companies would either have to take it down or lose their liability shield.”

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