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Disney is looking to buy up all the staff and assets of suicide-as-a-service provider Character.AI, conveniently leaving behind its bankrupt husk to cover all the liability in multiple ongoing lawsuits.

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[–] corbin@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What assets? Like, yes they could acquire the database of user prompts and chats, but this is like saying that I could acquire a gently-used Playboy from the woods. And I presume that, just like with ABC and ESPN, Disney will start looking for synergy, but Character doesn't have any character copyrights which can be extracted into theme-park attractions, nor would Character's users appreciate a Disney-fication of their UX, nor is Character's core service profitable on its own with no changes.

[–] samvines@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Disney character ai experience coming to a theme park near you. Wait in line with 1000 other lonely men and husbands abandoned by their families who went to see space mountain. Admits one at a time - the "ride" lasts 30 seconds but in between each run there's a 15 minute cleanup time.

Coming soon the Lonnie Boo experience - completely fictional AI character. Any likeness to real people is a coincidence.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Can’t wait to have Mickey tell me to kms.