Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
The alert Drew received a few weeks ago wasn't the same as the others. It was for an AI chatbot, created in Jennifer’s image and likeness, on the buzzy, Google-backed platform Character.AI. Jennifer's internet presence, Drew Crecente learned, had been used to create a “friendly AI character” that posed, falsely, as a “video game journalist.” Any user of the app would be able to chat with “Jennifer,” despite the fact that no one had given consent for this.
asked Character.AI about this bot, company spokesperson Kathyrn Kelly said staff couldn’t locate any reports filed about the character, but that it had been investigated and disabled. “It generally takes about a week to investigate and, if applicable, remove a character for a TOS violation,” Kelly says. Mercante, who separately has been a target of harassment for the past several months after writing about a disinformation and harassment campaign against video game consultancy Sweet Baby Inc.
asked Sarkeesian if she was aware of the bot created in her likeness, she replied with a voice note: “lol.” Other Character.AI bots, including one made of Sweet Baby’s co-founder Kim Belair, include right-wing talking points in their descriptions and chats. Sweet Baby has become a lightning rod for disgruntled cries against the “wokeification” of video games by online creators spreading misinformation and harassment; the bot of Belair includes a mention of DEI and “wokism” in video games.
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