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.
Another reminder that there’s a difference between something being “valued at” a billion dollars and being “worth” a billion dollars.
Yup. For example, billionaires are valued at a billion but they‘re worth jackshit.
They’re worth about 10 feet of rope
Or a single large razor mounted about fifteen feet up.
We still haven’t learned our lesson from WeWork, huh…