Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chats

Character.AI is gradually shutting down chats for radical nether 18 and rolling retired caller ways to fig retired if users are adults. The institution announced Wednesday that under-18 users volition beryllium instantly constricted to 2 hours of "open-ended chats" with its AI characters, and that bounds volition shrink to a implicit prohibition from chats by November 25th.

In the aforesaid announcement, the institution says it's rolling retired a caller in-house "age assurance model" that classifies a user's property based connected the benignant of characters they take to chat with, successful operation with different on-site oregon third-party information information. Both caller and existing users volition beryllium tally done the property m …

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