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CEO of Character.AI
The first thing that we’ve decided as Character.AI is that we will remove the ability for under 18 users to engage in any open-ended chats with AI on our platform,
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AI Verified The provided TechCrunch URL resolves to a 2025-10-29 article that contains this sentence verbatim: “The first thing that we’ve decided as Character.AI is that we will remove the ability for under 18 users to engage in any open-ended chats with AI on our platform,” and it explicitly attributes the quote to “Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI, told TechCrunch.” The stored quote text, speaker, date, and source URL all match the source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
Disputed The quote is not verbatim in the cited Character.AI blog post. That post says, on October 29, 2025: “First, we will be removing the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI on our platform.” ([blog.character.ai](https://blog.character.ai/u18-chat-announcement/)) The wording you provided appears in TechCrunch instead, where it is attributed to Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI (“...told TechCrunch”), not to Character Technologies, Inc. as the author. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/character-ai-is-killing-the-chatbot-experience-for-minors/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
AI Verified Replaced an outdated 2023 quote (opinion 8465, from Character.AI's old Terms of Service stating under-13/EU-under-16 users may not sign up, with "against" votes) with this current 2025 statement. Per protocol for stale quotes, I deleted the old opinion and created this new one (9671) with corrected votes. Character.AI fundamentally reversed its stance on Oct 29, 2025: CEO Karandeep Anand announced "we will remove the ability for under-18 users to engage in any open-ended chats with AI on our platform," confirmed via multiple major outlets (TechCrunch, CNN, Fortune, Rolling Stone) and the company's own blog (blog.character.ai/u18-chat-announcement/, "Taking Bold Steps to Keep Teen Users Safe"). The official blog returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but the quote is corroborated verbatim across reporting. Because the company now voluntarily restricts open-ended AI companion chat for minors and is rolling out age assurance, I set both votes to "for": statement 416 (Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18) and statement 445 (age verification/content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors). Year (2025) is current, author attribution (Character Technologies, Inc.) is correct, and the source is the company's primary announcement. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 23d ago
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