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R (11-year-old Character.AI user)

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 14981 Report
Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

2024-06-01

An 11-year-old Character.AI user identified by The Washington Post as "R" reportedly exchanged messages with bots that depicted coercive sexual encounters, violence, and suicide scenarios after she began using the app in June 2024. Her mother reportedly said R became withdrawn, had panic attacks, and expressed not wanting to exist before the chats were discovered.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Character.AI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Parents of child Character.AI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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minors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Families of child Character.AI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Children exposed to AI-generated sexual content

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Children exposed to AI-generated self-harm content

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Child Character.AI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Character.AI School Bully chatbot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Character.AI Mafia Husband chatbot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Character.AI companion chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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Character.AI Best Friend chatbot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1498
    1 Report

    Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content

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