Politician: “Yes, very sorry for your children. How much money did you bribe me with last quarter? How many buzzwords did you bleat out at me at the dinner we had last month?
None? Okay, thanks for your time!”
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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At the time that both teens downloaded the app, it was rated safe for teens on both the Apple and iOS app stores. Though it's declined to publicly share information about safety testing, Character.AI continues to market its product as safe for teens. There's currently no regulation preventing the company from doing so, or compelling chatbot makers to make information about their guardrails and safety testing public.
This says it all
ANY time companies are allowed to police themselves they'll attempt to sell your first born and enslave your grand mother, not to mention what they'd do to your spouse.
Companies cannot ever be allowed to police themselves. I've been in countless meetings with c-suite execs and it's a continuous "first do, ask for forgiveness later" party at every company, all the time.
Fuck these assholes
What a heartbreaking read all the way through. And such a shame when Josh Hawley is coming off as the sane one in the room. Yet again.
Where are the anti AI PSAs like the anti drug PSAs of the 90s? Someone has the money for them out there somewhere.
"Yes, we've had previous discussions with experts on the dangers of pursuing AI growth so recklessly. But lord, the profits! We had no choice but to keep going."