AI firm Character.AI is facing backlash after using the likeness of Jennifer Ann Crecente, an 18-year-old murder victim from 2006, in a video game without her family’s consent. The company said that the character violated its policies again…

A California-based tech company admits its service was used to create a digital character based on a murdered girl.

In a post on Wednesday, Brian Crecente, founder of the video game news website Kotaku, pointed the finger at Character.AI af…

A dad was horrified to receive a notification Wednesday that his dead daughter’s yearbook photo and name had been used to create a chatbot on the popular AI site, Character AI. Creative Commons

A father was horrified to discover that his de…

This one's nasty — in one of the more high-profile, macabre incidents involving AI-generated content in recent memory, Character.AI, the chatbot startup founded by ex-Google staffers, was pushed to delete a user-created avatar of an 18-year…

Pandora’s box is an appropriate parable for the age of AI. Questioning the range of impacts of new technologies seems like a simple ethical necessity, but some major AI companies haven’t read the memo. Character.AI, an OpenAI competitor sta…

Jennifer Ann Crecente, who was murdered in 2006, had her photo and name used in a chatbot created on Character.ai that her father discovered this week. Drew Crecente and CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Drew Crecente woke at 6:30 a.…

One morning in early October, about 18 years after his daughter Jennifer was murdered, Drew Crecente received a Google alert flagging what appeared to be a new profile of her online.

The profile had Jennifer's full name and a yearbook photo…

Drew Crecente's daughter died in 2006, killed by an ex-boyfriend in Austin, Texas, when she was just 18. Her murder was highly publicized—so much so that Drew would still occasionally see Google alerts for her name, Jennifer Ann Crecente.

T…

A father who continues to grieve the 2006 murder of his 18-year-old daughter says he was appalled to discover her name and yearbook photo were used to create an AI chatbot. Drew Crecente found the chatbot earlier this month on Character.ai,…