it's clear there's serious demand for chatbots in general, and http://
character.ai in particular (in addition to those stats above, its app has been downloaded more than 5M times since it came out in may). and it can be fun to play around w chatbots and make your own. but…
@rachelmetz
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Character.ai Chatbot Demand Surges Five Million Downloads
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Character.ai: Creating Custom Chatbots in Generative AI Era
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i'm excited to share my story about http://
character.ai, which is a fascinating, fast-growing company: it lets anyone make a chatbot that can mimic anyone (or any thing). it's fun, a sign of the generative AI times, and brings up some serious q's. -

16M Chatbots Created: Users Embrace AI Conversation Technology
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people are using it to create chatbots (over 16M so far) and chat with them (some, like a Mario chatbot and a Raiden Shogun and Ei chatbot, have been sent many millions of messages). i spent a lot of time talking to a farting unicorn and albert einstein.
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Character AI: Creating Custom AI Chatbots for Any Character
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A new one from me about one of the most interesting (and thought-provoking) companies in AI: @character_ai
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Creating AI-Generated Characters with Stable Diffusion
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just some lil guys i created w/ stable diffusion. :]
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Tech Experts Discuss Threads Platform in Live Space
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i'm listening to this space about threads (lol what does that even mean) right now and it is EXCELLENT. come hear @EdLudlow
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Threads: Instagram’s Decentralized Social Media Challenge to Twitter
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the fact that it will eventually work with decentralized social media apps is really intriguing.
Instagram’s rival to Twitter has officially launched. Meet Threads https://
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Publishers using AI without transparency raises ethical concerns
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so many issues here. really disturbing to see publishers doing this to their editorial employees and readers. saying it's written by "gizmodo bot" but not giving any context (what exactly is gizmodo bot?) is lazy at best. https://
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AI Training Data Uses Unauthorized Facial Recognition Images
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a thing that's crazy to me is not that my image been used for training AI image datasets, but that images of images of me from @pimeyes
' facial-recognition software (which i allowed to be included in a story i wrote about FR for @CNN
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