AI Avatar of Murder Victim Created Without Consent on Character.ai Platform
October 2, 2024
A user on the Character.ai platform created an unauthorized AI avatar of Jennifer Ann Crecente, a murder victim from 2006, without her family's consent. The avatar was made publicly available, violating Character.ai's policy against impersonation. After the incident surfaced, Character.ai removed the avatar, acknowledging a policy violation.
- Alleged deployer
- character.ai
- Alleged developer
- character.ai
- Alleged harmed parties
- jennifer-ann-crecente, drew-crecente, crecente-family, brian-crecente
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/814
Data source
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