translated-es-AI firm Character.AI is facing backlash after using the likeness of Jennifer Ann Crecente, an 18-year-old murder victim from 2006, in a video game without her family’s consent. The company said that the character violated its …

translated-es-A California-based tech company admits its service was used to create a digital character based on a murdered girl.

In a post on Wednesday, Brian Crecente, founder of the video game news website Kotaku, pointed the finger at C…

translated-es-A dad was horrified to receive a notification Wednesday that his dead daughter’s yearbook photo and name had been used to create a chatbot on the popular AI site, Character AI. Creative Commons

A father was horrified to discov…

translated-es-This one's nasty — in one of the more high-profile, macabre incidents involving AI-generated content in recent memory, Character.AI, the chatbot startup founded by ex-Google staffers, was pushed to delete a user-created avatar…

translated-es-Pandora’s box is an appropriate parable for the age of AI. Questioning the range of impacts of new technologies seems like a simple ethical necessity, but some major AI companies haven’t read the memo. Character.AI, an OpenAI …

translated-es-Jennifer Ann Crecente, who was murdered in 2006, had her photo and name used in a chatbot created on Character.ai that her father discovered this week. Drew Crecente and CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Drew Crecente w…

translated-es-One morning in early October, about 18 years after his daughter Jennifer was murdered, Drew Crecente received a Google alert flagging what appeared to be a new profile of her online.

The profile had Jennifer's full name and a …

translated-es-Drew Crecente's daughter died in 2006, killed by an ex-boyfriend in Austin, Texas, when she was just 18. Her murder was highly publicized—so much so that Drew would still occasionally see Google alerts for her name, Jennifer A…

translated-es-A father who continues to grieve the 2006 murder of his 18-year-old daughter says he was appalled to discover her name and yearbook photo were used to create an AI chatbot. Drew Crecente found the chatbot earlier this month on…