Character.AI
AI chatbot platform for creating and interacting with AI characters
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How Character.AI compares
2 creators weighed in
ChatGPT
Direct rival
OpenAI's conversational chatbot
Both were early consumer AI wins. Sarah says both felt like talking to a model, not a social experience.
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Both were early consumer AI wins. Sarah says both felt like talking to a model, not a social experience.
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"Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son, a bright and beautiful boy, had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an online character on the Character.AI app in late spring 2023. Within 10 months, he was dead — he had tak..."
Mentioned alongside ChatGPT as another dangerous AI chatbot platform
"Character AI — unbelievable what they did and it was like a new paradigm. But still it was always like you would speak to Noam and for him the product was the model."
Compared to ChatGPT as another early consumer AI win; both seen as technically impressive but lacking social/multiplayer design
What creators say
"I would argue Character was kind of an entertainment company."
More from Anish Acharya →+1 more mention from Anish
"Character, but also janitor, right? There's a ton of products that are there"
"I think of platforms that obviously were trailblazers in a way, but like Character.AI — the character in so far as it was was just like a profile picture with mostly like an anime, you know, probably sexy kind of character."
More from Ajay Mehta →"Character AI — unbelievable what they did and it was like a new paradigm. But still it was always like you would speak to Noam and for him the product was the model."
More from Sarah Tavel →
"This whole area is about a year behind where it should be largely because Noam Shazeer was doing Character AI."
More from Dave Blundin →
"The whole idea with Character AI was that you'd be able to pick an individual person to talk to. I remember I demoed it and I was like, I want to talk to Joseph Stalin and try and convince him that capitalism is the best system. It was an unsatisf..."
More from John Coogan →
"Two years ago, Google bought his company Character.AI for 2.7 billion to bring him back and put him in charge of Gemini."
More from Peter Diamandis →"We have first Noam Shazir who was Character AI and then we have John Jumper, Nobel Prize winner."
More from Harry Stebbings →
"Character AI."
More from TBPN →"I work with some of the early AI researchers at Google. That's how I knew like Nom Shazir who started character and then went back to Google."
More from Elad Gil →"We already seen two or three suicide settlements with a person talking to a chatbot, ends up killing themselves, and then the parents of the people sue it. That's why Character.AI got taken away."
More from Drew →
"Character.ai just went out of business as well... It has been very controversial in schools. And I think it's abhorrent to put kids on these tools if they don't have massive controls in place."
"Character.ai, I believe, was the company where you had that kid who was talking to the AI and the AI was like, 'Bro, you should just kill yourself.' And so the kid did. So they've had all kinds of lawsuits."
"Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son, a bright and beautiful boy, had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an online character on the Character.AI app in late spring 2023. Within 10 months, he was dead — he had taken his own..."
"I think AI, Character AI is kind of the next big threat, if you will. I think the average query on AI is 15 minutes, but the average session on Character AI is 75 minutes."
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