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Character.AI opens a back door to free speech rights for chatbots

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Character. AI , one of the leading AI companion bot apps on the market, is fighting for the dismissal of a wrongful death and product liability lawsuit concerning the death of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III .

John Sutter : A machine is not a human, and machine-generated text should not enjoy the rights afforded to speech uttered by a human or with intent or volition.

A new campaign led by Anthropic aims to convince policymakers, business leaders that their AI products might one day be conscious and therefore worthy of consideration.

We’re already starting to see evidence of AI “rights” guiding policy decisions at the expense of human values.

We need accountability for dangerous technology — and liability for developers who create it.