or responses that don't quite align with a character's intended persona. It's important to remember that every chat has a disclaimer that these are AI bots, not real people, and their responses ...

A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...

Character.AI ... relationships with AI companions likely leaves individuals "more vulnerable and prone" to AI manipulation. Indeed, many minors are interacting with AI bots, including those ...

Microsoft announced a new AI Chat Web App template, available in preview, designed to simplify AI development with .NET. This ...

In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on ...

To simplify the creation of chatbots with AI functions, a new template is available for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and .NET CLI. Microsoft has released the .NET AI template as a preview.