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Character AI clamps down following teen user suicide, but users are revolting


As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.

Credit: Megan Garcia/Bryson GilletteA copy of Garcia’s complaint demanding a jury trial provided to VentureBeat by public relations consulting firm Bryson Gillette is embedded below: Similarly, the Character AI Discord server ‘s feedback channel is filled with complaints about the new updates and deletion of chatbots that users spent time making and interacting with. The key question remains: how to balance the potential of new AI technologies and the opportunities they provide for free expression and communication with the responsibility to protect users, especially the young and impressionable, from harm?

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