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Character.AI, the controversial chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users, just rolled out a new “Parental Insights” feature that the company claims will give parents a deeper glimpse into how their kids are using the chatbot platform.
In a blog post on Tuesday, the youth-beloved Character.AI characterized the feature as an “initial step” towards developing robust safety and parental control tools. Let’s hope so: this tool appears to be absurdly easy for teens to bypass, and it’s unclear how much “insight” it will really offer parents.
The feature is pretty simple. An underage Character.AI user can switch on Parental Insights by heading to their account “preferences” tab. There, they’re prompted to enter one or several emails belonging to parents and guardians, who will receive a weekly email that updates them on their child’s “daily average time spent on the platform across both web and mobile”; a list of the “top characters their teen interacted with most frequently during the week”; and the amount of “time spent with each Character,” which Character.AI says will give “parents insight into…
The artificial intelligence entertainment platform Character.AI introduced on Thursday a feature allowing users to role-play in more than 20 classic books, including Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby.
"Books" lets Character.AI users engage in open-ended chats based on these and other famous titles in the public domain. Users can participate as a character from the book or as the "character" they've created on the platform.
Users can either follow the book's original narrative arc or go "off script" to interact with its characters as they wish. Additionally, Books offers "alternate universe remixes" in which players can overhaul a title's original premise, such as imagining Jay Gatsby in space. These remixes can be shared with the broader Character.AI community and subsequently browsed and played by other users.
In a blog post announcing the feature, Character.AI preemptively addressed the concern that it might encourage people to play classic literature rather than actually read it.
"Step into a story, talk to its characters, and there's a good chance you walk away wanting to pick up the original," the company said. "Not replacing books — but making them impossible to ignore."
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Fanfiction is nothing new, but the rise of AI has the potential to take it to a whole new level.
The first indication of that has been the popularity of Character.AI, an artificial intelligence experience that mimics conversations with your favorite characters, be they fictional, historical, or completely new to the world. So, how does the site work, and how can you start creating? We've got you covered in this quick guide.
Character.AI is a site that uses a neural language model to reads huge amounts of text and respond to prompts using that information. Anyone can create a character on the site, and they can be fictional or based on real people, dead or alive. For example, a quick search of the website shows that users have made characters of Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, and Napoleon Bonaparte. You can chat with one character at a time or organize a group chat with multiple characters so they talk to each other, and you, all at once.
Character.AI is free to use, but a premium offering called c.ai+ gives you perks, like priority access to chats and faster response times from characters as well as early…