Father of murdered girl turned into AI chatbot warns of dangers of new tech
A DEVASTATED dad has told how his murdered daughter was turned into an AI chatbot by a sick stranger.Jennifer's yearbook photo was used to create a chatbot on Character AI nearly two decades after she was killedCrabbe was jailed for 35 years after shooting Jennifer in the back of the head with a sawn-off shotgun in woods near her home in 2006 - months before she was set to graduate from high school.
Drew blasted the creation on the website Character AI - which is one of the biggest platforms of its kind - as "unacceptable". Drew is now facing the "unnecessarily painful situation" of trying to protect his late daughter from being exploited online.Character AI told The Sun that the chatbot was "user-created" and was "removed as soon as we were notified about this Character".
Two weeks after filing a complaint titled, "Murdered child recreated on Character AI," he was thanked for bringing the issue to their attention and told that the team would "look into it further.""That cheers with the exclamation mark after it I think tells me all I need to know about Character AI. This response was incredibly tone deaf – shockingly so," Drew said.
Drew has not heard more from Character AI - but an attempt by The Sun to create a bot in Jennifer's name showed it was still possible."It's upsetting to know that it can still be done, but at the same time, it's helpful because it just highlights the need for me to continue to explore this fully," Drew said.
These chatbots include the rich and famous like Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump but also characters from fiction and fantasies like strict teachers, misbehaving students, and vampires.In January, 3.5 million people were visiting the site every day.After receiving $150 million in funding in March last year, the company has been valued at around $1 billion.Molly Russell, 14, ended her life in November 2017 after watching self-harm and suicide content online.
The teenager allegedly spoke to the bot about death and also engaged in highly sexualised conversations while isolating himself from the real world.
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