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How do teens really use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think

  • Written by Annabel Blake, PhD Candidate, Human-Computer Interaction, University of Sydney
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In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

The app exploded, quickly growing to more than 20 million users who created more than 10 million chatbot characters.

Many of the users creating those characters were young...

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