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As his relationship with the companion AI became increasingly intense, the 14-year-old began withdrawing from family and friends, and was getting in trouble at school.filed against Character.AI by the boy's mother, chat transcripts show intimate and often highly sexual conversations between Sewell and the chatbot Dany, modelled on the Game of Thrones character Danaerys Targaryen.
This is not the first known instance of a vulnerable person dying by suicide after interacting with a chatbot persona.involving Character.AI's main competitor, Chai AI. When this happened, the company told the media they were"working our hardest to minimise harm"., Character.AI has stated they"take the safety of our users very seriously" and have introduced"numerous new safety measures over the past six months".
One of the decisions the Australian government must make is how to define which systems are"high-risk", and therefore captured by the guardrails.General purpose models are the engine under the hood of AI chatbots like Dany: AI algorithms that can generate text, images, videos and music from user prompts, and can be adapted for use in a variety of contexts.
The suicide deaths reported in the media could be just the tip of the iceberg. We have no way of knowing how many vulnerable people are in addictive, toxic or even dangerous relationships with chatbots.When Australia finally introduces mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI systems, which may happen as early as next year, the guardrails should apply to both companion chatbots and the general purpose models the chatbots are built upon.
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