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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI Chatbots’ Role in Child Grooming

https://www.webpronews.com/meta-faces-l ... -grooming/

PA Senate introduces bill addressing AI-generated child sexual abuse material

https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/pa- ... 7df26.html

Gang leaders, school shooters and ‘Bestie Epstein’: meet Character.AI’s chatbot companions

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/s ... companions

Experts raise alarm as young chatbot users describe harms to mental health and exposure to inappropriate content
Chatbots ask children to share secrets, give them medical advice and use manipulative tactics to keep them talking
Regulators treat AI outputs as “user-generated”, which campaigners say fails to hold big tech accountable

Jim Burton wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:23 am Gang leaders, school shooters and ‘Bestie Epstein’: meet Character.AI’s chatbot companions

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/s ... companions

Experts raise alarm as young chatbot users describe harms to mental health and exposure to inappropriate content
Chatbots ask children to share secrets, give them medical advice and use manipulative tactics to keep them talking
Regulators treat AI outputs as “user-generated”, which campaigners say fails to hold big tech accountable

As I was reading the "article", only one thing came to mind: If we had invented books today, we would be talking about how ink groomings children. Think about it, a book can describe situations that, if carried out in reality, could be crimes. A book can incite terrorism in a minor. A minor should be prohibited from reading books.

Then there’s also some conspiracy thinking in that article, there’s real ignorance behind it. They don’t even know how much Character.AI has actually ruined itself by constantly censoring. (One of the lowest-quality products on the market, still popular only as an echo of what it was in the beginning.

Then I don’t know which suicide cases it refers to, I followed two of them, and in both cases there was a shitty family involved who reconfirmed their nature by blaming AI for their child’s suicide in order to profit off their corpse. I don’t remember if it was the case mentioned in the article, but no one kills themselves just because they receive a 'kill yourself' response to a prompt.

Damn, these things really piss me off.
Besides the fact that the United Kingdom is becoming a dystopia.

OpenAI Introduces New Safety Measures for Underage ChatGPT Users

https://www.tipranks.com/news/private-c ... tgpt-users

Character AI is planning to implement its age verification update on November 25th, which is one among many unpopular decisions by the company, and as such, it's rumored that Character AI could be sold. Here is a video on the situation; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kfu_6clr9c

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385608845112

Family therapist Dr. Tom Kersting joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss a study showing teenagers utilizing AI chatbots for mental health advice, efforts to restrict access and how parents can help their children maintain a social life without AI.

Guardian channels Mary Whitehouse.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... smart-toys

As the holiday season looms into view with Black Friday, one category on people’s gift lists is causing increasing concern: products with artificial intelligence.

The development has raised new concerns about the dangers smart toys could pose to children, as consumer advocacy groups say AI could harm kids’ safety and development. The trend has prompted calls for increased testing of such products and governmental oversight.

“If we look into how these toys are marketed and how they perform and the fact that there is little to no research that shows that they are beneficial for children – and no regulation of AI toys – it raises a really big red flag,” said Rachel Franz, director of Young Children Thrive Offline, an initiative from Fairplay, which works to protect children from big tech.

Last week, those fears were given brutal justification when an AI-equipped teddy bear started discussing sexually explicit topics.