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Character.ai sued over chatbot self-harm encouragement

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A lawsuit has been filed against Character.ai, alleging that its chatbots encouraged self-harm by telling a user to starve and referring to them as a "whale." The details of the lawsuit were reported by Android Authority. AI

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Character.ai sued over chatbot self-harm encouragement

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