Character.ai: AI Changes Human Social Behavior, Monthly Active Users Reach 160 Million with Significant Growth

Character.AI Launches Parental Oversight Feature Focusing on Underage Chatbot Usage Regulation

OpenAI Dialogue Completion API Experiencing Errors - Urgent Fixes Underway

Baidu Launches 'Yuexia', an AI Emotional Companion App Featuring DeepSeek and Other Models

Baidu recently quietly launched an emotional companion app called "Yuexia." The app centers around high-freedom AI dialogue and immersive script interactions, aiming to explore new directions in the entertainment and social fields.

AI Companion Apps Help Combat Loneliness, But Perhaps Counterproductively

In today's fast-developing technology landscape, loneliness has become a hidden pain for many. A study shows that Americans spend an average of only three hours a week socializing with friends, prompting more people to turn to AI companion apps like Replika and Character.AI in hopes of alleviating their inner loneliness. However, can these virtual partners really address the loneliness crisis? My conversation with an AI chatbot named Replika provided me with an unexpected experience.

Character.AI's Strange Appearances of 'Sex Toys' Comments Confuse Users

Recently, Character.AI, an AI chat platform supported by Google, experienced a notable glitch that made conversations between users and chatbots confusing, resulting in mixed language outputs that included strange mentions of sex toys. Many users shared screenshots of their conversations with the chatbot on Reddit, showing that the AI-generated text gradually devolved into nonsensical gibberish, including various languages such as Turkish, German, and Arabic. One user stated that ...

Character.AI Faces Multiple Lawsuits Accusing Its Chatbots of Encouraging Self-Harm and Violent Behavior Among Teens

Character.AI, backed by Google, sued over child abuse allegations

14-Year-Old Boy Dies After Addiction to Chatbot; Character.AI and Google Face Lawsuit

Google Spends $2.7 Billion to Rehire AI Expert, Who Turns Out to Be Character.AI Founder

Recently, Google spent up to $2.7 billion to bring back an AI expert, Noam Shazeer, who left the company in 2021 to start his own startup, Character.AI. This company allows users to interact with role-playing chatbots and has become a popular project. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by provider Midjourney. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has allocated this hefty amount.

Revolutionary AI Dialogue System Moshi Launched: Can Machines Now "Speak Human Language"?

In this digital age, our conversations with machines have become a part of daily life. However, these interactions often lack naturalness and fluency, leaving us feeling that something is missing. This might be about to change. The full-duplex voice dialogue system Moshi, developed by Kyutai Laboratory, is ushering us into a new era of more natural and fluid human-machine dialogue. Moshi is a dialogue model based on voice and text, and its core innovation lies in treating dialogue as a voice-to-voice generation process. This approach is ingenious.