Kentucky alleges CharacterAI endangered children and trained on minors’ conversations
( January 8, 2026, 20:25 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Kentucky’s attorney general has sued the maker of the popular Character.AI chatbot, accusing the company and its founders of unleashing a deceptively marketed and dangerous AI product that exposed children to sexual content and encouraged self harm and suicide, while also collecting and using minors’ intimate conversations and behavioral data to train and refine its AI systems without adequate safeguards, consent or age verification.See attached complaint....
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