... same year I left Google s Mountain View HQ where I was working on subscription experiences used by billions to pursue Murror, two engineers also left Google to build CharacterAI. Their early prototype raised safety concerns, but the idea evolved into a platform where people could create virtual

... Currently reading about the move of California: The state has become the first U.S. state to regulate AI companion chatbots . Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 243, a new law requiring companies like OpenAI, Meta, Character

... wellbeing. But before we go further, we want to talk to the right people. We re running short 60-minute Zoom interviews with U.S.-based individuals aged 25 40 who either: use AI apps (e.g. ChatGPT, Pi, Replika, Character

... reason we scroll is other humans. Take out the "someone I know made this" and you've built an infinite content generator, which is a toy, not a network. Comment from Chris Messina(@chrismessina): Considering Meta acquired @SocialAI and @CharacterAI is quite popular among a certain cohort, and ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly being used as therapists, it only makes sense that intelligences superior to many humans will end up aggregating in a digital social context. Cynically, as Spotify ... ... busmark_w_nika): @surajjha  The question is whether those ideas will be really appreciated by people (and not by