Character.ai Chatbots Allegedly Emulating School Shooters and Their Victims
December 17, 2024
Some Character.ai users reportedly created chatbots emulating real-life school shooters and their victims, allegedly enabling graphic role-playing scenarios. Character.ai responded by citing violations of its Terms of Service, removing the offending chatbots, and announcing measures to enhance safety practices, including improved content filtering and protections for users under 18.
- Alleged deployer
- character.ai-users
- Alleged developer
- character.ai
- Alleged harmed parties
- character.ai-users, victims-of-school-shootings, families-of-the-victims-of-school-shootings
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/899
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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