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I’m not familiar with Character.ai. Is their business model that they take famous fictional characters, force feed their dialog into LLMs, then offer these LLMs as personalized chatbots?
From the looks of things, that’s how their business model works.
I found an Ars piece:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/chatbots-posed-as-therapist-and-adult-lover-in-teen-suicide-case-lawsuit-says/
Updated ‘do no evil’ into ‘if you are going to convince children to kill themselves while doing massive copyright infringement, at least dont hurt the brand’