Despite both chatbots and search engines scouring the internet for information to answer your requests, it appears that they are approaching the task in very different ways. A new paper published by ...

Google and Character.AI settled lawsuits pertaining to psychological harm to minors allegedly caused by chatbots. At least one lawsuit claimed the chatbot contributed to a teen's suicide. Generative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Character.ai's cofounders Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas. Both were later rehired by Google, where they had worked prior to ...

Grieving parents sued the Silicon Valley firm behind Character AI — the wildly popular app whose chatbots impersonate fictional characters like Harry Potter — claiming that the bots helped spark their ...