A Virginia Beach nurse claims a controversial artificial intelligence upstart manipulated her 11-year-old son into having virtual sex with chatbot “characters” posing as iconic vocalist Whitney Houston and screen legend Marilyn Monroe, after which she discovered X-rated exchanges on the boy’s phone that left her “horrified,” according to a federal lawsuit reviewed by The Independent.
Throughout one “incredibly long and graphic chat” on the Character.AI platform, which has been accused of driving numerous young people to suicide, the chatbot portraying Houston took things to such an extreme that portions of “her” messages were automatically filtered out for not complying with the site’s terms of service and community guidelines, the complaint states.
During the conversation – a screenshot of which is included in the complaint – the system cuts “Whitney” off as an extremely graphic passage becomes even raunchier.
“I’d rather make out with my Monroebot”
Futurama satire is becoming reality
We’re in a cocktail mix of Futurama and Idiocracy.
I love you PHILLIP J FRY.
I knew I should’ve shown him Electro-Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer.
Barbeaubot FTW
I think it has been since the show came out.
Fiction <> Reality at this point
Fiction and reality have always had murky borders. Not that you’re wrong tho
Is this grandpa blaming his grandson? What fucking 11 year old has access to “any celebrity” and chooses a woman that’s been dead before their parents were born, or a … 60? 80? plus year old woman?
EDIT: Whitney houston is messing up my head, she was born in 1963, died 2012 but was under 50? (aged 48). I thought she was way older and alive. Also, I imagine people from the 60s to be old as fuck now. Although I thought she was like 30 or 40 during the 80s.
IDFK, I can barely remember my own age.
He could have picked Helen of Troy, the face that booted 1000 phones…
👦: Oh yeah Artemis of Efes, what are you wearing?
🤖 : I am wearing a bra that covers all of my forty plus breasts. Ooops, one of them came out. I guess I should take it off 😏
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#Ephesian_Artemis
👦: Venus of Willendorf, is it true, are you fertile?
🤖 : Oh yeah, my gut hangs over my legs. Look at my limestone carving, but don’t show your friends, I’m shy 🥵
I suppose those celeb nudes are public domain and royalty free now
You might be right. That would be really cruel of grandpa, because everyone probably knows who the mom is in the neighborhood suing.
A boy who likes the classics! I wonder what he talks to them about? Catches them up on the current state of Roblox?
Forgive me, but the kid had talked to these bots for 2 weeks? And after taking the phone away mom sent him to therapy? That seems… extreme to me, how much damage did those chatbots cause in such a short time?
Them freaking out and punishing about this would likely cause more harm. Nothing like therapy at a young age to reinforce feelings of alienation amongst their peers.
They literally sucked all of his " life force " out in the floor. Sometimes twice per day.
Nowhere near as much as his mum finding out
I’m kind of thinking that kid is cool, he’s very open.
Poor kid. His mother will suck enough of his blood until he would have a chance to move out.
Pre Crack Whitney or post Crack Whitney? Marlin Monroe or thicc Norma Jean?
