“We are currently reviewing the Attorney General’s announcement. As a company, we take the safety of our users very seriously,” a Character.AI spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch. “We welcome working with regulators, and have recently announced we are launching some of the features referenced in the release including parental controls.”
Character.AI on Thursday rolled out new safety features aimed at protecting teens, saying these updates will limit its chatbots from starting romantic conversations with minors. The company has also started training a new model specifically for teen users in the last month — one day, it hopes to have adults using one model on its platform, while minors use another.