Futurism argues safety restrictions made the platform unusable
3 Oct 14 2:45 AM · 2d ago · 1 article · 5 posts · 4 comments · 4 sources · development 3 of 8
Coverage noted that Character.AI's attempts to make its platform safer for younger users also made it frustrating and less compelling, suggesting the features that drove engagement were the same ones regulators flagged as dangerous.
Character.AI AI companion chatbot startupDisney Lead bidder for Character.AI assetsGoogle Prior technology licensor and talent acquirerKarandeep Anand Character.AI CEOJason Koebler 404 Media reporter
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"in attempting, eventually, to make its freewheeling platform safer, [Character AI] also made it unusable and deeply frustrating for much of its userbase — suggesting that the qualities that allegedly made its platform so dangerous to some young users were the same features that made it compelling." https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell…
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i feel it is useful enough that people would pay for it - $10 a month or $20 a month - at the moment it is free though, so its hard to tell. The confusing thing for me is the wider business case. Everyone is using AI as agreed upon - so where is the undercapacity which needs all these datacenters? It might simply be a limit to my imagination on…
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And all the millions of conversations people had with the bots.. probably one of the weirdest human generated text corpus out there.. why disney specifically would want it is beyond me
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Uber did have some competition but it was comparatively late and never caught up. That's not a problem in AI where the lead by any given metric changes monthly.
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Whether they started at the same time or not, all of them are spending capex like they are going to be the only player in town when that's impossible.
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