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5h ago
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character.ai
10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Research & technical analysis reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Ed Zitron
“Character.ai was gutted in 2024 for $2.5 billion so Google could rehire one of the original authors of the Attention Is All You Need paper, but it hung in there for two years under Google’s “licensing” deal. This is the first of many I’m afraid. This is all…” evidence ↗
10 experts
5 communities
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Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Policy & governance
4 expertsRules, institutions and accountability.
“Maria hails back to the last #attention2026 conference in which Megan Garcia spoke about her lawsuit against Character.ai, which led her son to suicide. Ressa notes that Character.ai just went bankrupt. There are real ways to hold these systems accountable …”
Concern & critique
1 expertRisks, limits and unintended consequences.
“How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.”
Building & implementation
1 expertHow teams are shipping and applying it.
“character.ai did build their own LLM”
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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