Chatbot app Character.AI Tuesday launched a "Parental Insights" feature to give parents and guardians a weekly snapshot of how their teens use the chatbot platform. Why it matters: Character.AI, an ...

The "parental insights" feature is meant for caregivers whose children are younger than 18. The tool is accessible via the child's account preferences. From there, the user must add the adult's email ...

A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...

Character.AI, the popular AI chatbot service, has added Parental Insights, a new safety feature gives parents reports on their kids’ activity on the platform. The new safety measure, which the ...

The 14-year-old developed an "obsession" with Character.AI bots, as Garcia puts it, and despite being a previously active and social kid lost interest in the real world. The details of Sewell's ...

In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on ...

Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of ...