Character.AI, below menace from a number of lawsuits over its alleged unfavourable impression on teen psychological well being, is banning underage customers from open-ended chats on its website. As an alternative, teenagers will probably be allowed to make use of a brand new āTalesā format that, in contrast to common chats, provides āstructuredā choose-your-own-adventure-style experiences with the AI characters on its platform.
The function is obtainable to everybody, however Character.AI is pitching it as a technique to āimproveā the expertise for customers below 18. In October, Character.AI introduced that it might shut down chats for teenagers on November twenty fifth whereas it develops an age assurance function that may mechanically place underage customers into āextra conservativeā AI chats.
Tales works by permitting customers to select from two or three AI characters, choose a style, after which both write their very own premise or use AI to create one for them. Character.AI will then create a āguided narrativeā the place customers could make frequent decisions that change the course of the story. The expertise additionally contains AI-generated pictures, with āricher multimodal components coming quickly.ā
