AI Avatar of Murder Victim Created Without Consent on Character.ai Platform

October 2, 2024

An individual created an unauthorized AI avatar of Jennifer Ann Crecente, a murder victim from 2006, on the Character.ai platform without her family's consent. This violation of privacy and character impersonation contradicts the platform's policies. After the incident came to light, Character.ai removed the avatar. Such instances highlight the need for safe and secure AI practices, particularly in the realm of AI governance.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.638, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.621, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.617, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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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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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