The Character.AI chatbot service includes several features that allow you to interact with AI characters, while also letting the characters communicate with each other. The ability to create a group ...

Character.AI's boyfriend companions can be toxic by design. Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; Sompob Phetchcrai/Deagreez/via Getty Images On the artificial intelligence companion platform ...

Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real. MJ Cocking, who began chatting with an A.I. version of ...

Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a ...

Character.AI has been hit with multiple lawsuits about the content it has generated, especially with younger users. There are also concerns about AI chat addiction and unauthorized depictions of real ...

A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill writes about ...