Character.AI, the GenAI site that convinced some children to kill themselves, has gone bankrupt after parents sued them.
we found hordes of chatbots explicitly dedicated to themes of pedophilia, suicide, self-harm, and eating disorder coaching, as well as a thriving community of users creating chatbots designed to simulate school shootings, romanticize real mass shooters, and even impersonate the real child victims of mass shootings.
*Its. But I know that autocorrect makes it hard to use because it’s always incorrectly “correcting” it to “it’s”.
Apostrophes are one of my weaknesses, for sure.