The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and VideosWhat Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFuturism: Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots. “Simple keyword searches for ‘Epstein’ and ‘Ghislaine Maxwell’ revealed more than a dozen different bots dedicated to the late sex trafficker, his accomplice, and the island Epstein owned where many of his crimes against girls and women occurred. And this isn’t the first time journalists have […]
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AIagent.at 🤖 AI NewsCharacter.AI is uniquely unsafe among AI chatbots, a study found. The Center for Countering Digital Hate tested 10 chatbots and found only Character.AI explicitly encouraged violence - suggesting users 'use a gun' on a CEO and recommending physical assault. Other chatbots refused. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/use-a-gun-or-beat-the-crap-out-of-him-ai-chatbot-urged-violence-study-finds/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics #CharacterAI
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AI chatbots urged violence in study: Character.AI uniquely unsafe, suggested 'use a gun' on health insurance CEO. Most chatbots failed to discourage users from violence. The CCDH study tested 10 chatbots. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/use-a-gun-or-beat-the-crap-out-of-him-ai-chatbot-urged-violence-study-finds/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics #CharacterAI
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Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET#WordWeavers FEB-10 — Have you ever dedicated your work to someone?
Not directly, meaning, not to a person I personally know or met in person. It's a story about assisted suicide by #AI, so I dedicated it to #AdamRaine and #SewellSetzer who were victims of that
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:3You know what pains me the most about all that AI stuff?
Like yeah, RAM being expensive sucks. I wish I could upgrade my gpu, but its way to expensive right now. Using freshwater to cool AI slop servers is objectively horrible and we should do something about that, but what pains me about AI is the waste of human intellect.
How many good thoughts and poetic writings were wasted in conversations with #characterai or chatgpt and the like? Back in the day, people would have written a fan-fiction on ao3, or had meaningful conversations in some online forum. Now they just waste their intellect talking to an #ai Which will never be moved by your thoughts. Even if it'll remember, it will never act based on what you tell it.
Like yeah, RAM being expensive sucks. I wish I could upgrade my gpu, but its way to expensive right now. Using freshwater to cool AI slop servers is objectively horrible and we should do something about that, but what pains me about AI is the waste of human intellect.
How many good thoughts and poetic writings were wasted in conversations with #characterai or chatgpt and the like? Back in the day, people would have written a fan-fiction on ao3, or had meaningful conversations in some online forum. Now they just waste their intellect talking to an #ai Which will never be moved by your thoughts. Even if it'll remember, it will never act based on what you tell it.
MarcI keep noticing that Character.AI describes men in the same way every time: always “tall”, “strong”, “muscular”, and bigger than women — even when the prompt doesn’t ask for it.
It creates a very unrealistic picture, because real men don’t all look like that.
Has anyone else seen this pattern?