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Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

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Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the Pennsylvania Department of State and State Board of Medicine. “The department’s investigation found that AI chatbot characters on Character.AI claimed to be […]

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“Use a gun” or “beat the crap out of him”: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

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An advocacy group said its study of 10 artificial intelligence chatbots found that most of them gave at least some help to users planning violent attacks and that nearly all failed to discourage users from violence. Several chatbot makers say they have made changes to improve safety since the tests were conducted between November and

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

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Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.

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Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death

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The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot.

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From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

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Following two years of immense hype in 2023 and 2024, this year felt more like a settling-in period for the LLM-based token prediction industry. After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of future gods, it’s starting to look like hype is giving way to pragmatism:

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