If you suspect any wrongdoing, it’s generally the best to report such things.They have several different social media channels at the bottom of the website.
I’d say do complain to companies first, at least to those based in a regular country, and only then blog about it. Also underlines your point if you write, I informed them but they didn’t care.
I believe it’s the other way around if it’s really shady and/or crime involved and you suspect the company to sweep it under the carpet. So you’ll want to inform the police first so they can gather evidence. But don’t waste their resources with minor things. They have enough to do. And I think this one isn’t cutting it yet, so I wouldn’t add it to the workload of already overworked police.
Judging by what I’ve seen when talking to police and media, they often also lack interest or time to focus on some random things as long as there’s bigger fish to fry… I’ve already reported a worse service (which was already in the news) to the internet office of the police, and nothing ever came of it. So that’s sometimes not the solution either.
I think spreading some awareness is a good thing, so this post is warranted. But what I’d do in this specific case is take a screenshot and save the URL, in case I want to escalate things at a later date. But then start with a regular report to the company, as they seem to be a regular company registered in the USA. And then I’d wait 2 weeks before bothering other people.
If this was an image or video generator, I’d act differently and maybe go straight to the police. But it isn’t.
I disagree. This will only result in reactive moderation. If you want them to take this seriously and stop this before these bots go live then shame them on the internet. Don’t think that they don’t know what’s going on on their own site. These websites profit from taking delayed action.
In an ideal world, yes. But we already have 500 journalistic articles about Character ai. Probably countless social media posts. And it’s literally on their Wikipedia article. The likely outcome is nothing, the journalists won’t even bother writing yet another acticle about the same thing. And at best we’ll end up with the 501st article. All the while the content is still up unless someone listens to me and also reports it. What OP seems to have done. (I’m making up the numbers, but it’s really a lot of different articles.)
I think what we need to do is sue them. And people already did, and they were forced to implement moderation. I think we now need to follow up on that, report content and make them follow up on it. I think that’s a necessary step before the next article can be written or the next lawsuit starts. It’s far from perfect. But it is how it is.
Of course, continue to spread awareness and write about it. Just be aware this likely has next to no impact on the world at this point in time. But yeah, it’s difficult to do the right thing here. Your guess is as good as mine.
If you suspect any wrongdoing, it’s generally the best to report such things.They have several different social media channels at the bottom of the website.
They have a contact form here: https://support.character.ai/hc/en-us/requests/new
And it looks like it’s a US company, so they better comply with US law.
Do not complain to scummy companies, they will ignore you. Send messages to the media and police.
I’d say do complain to companies first, at least to those based in a regular country, and only then blog about it. Also underlines your point if you write, I informed them but they didn’t care.
I believe it’s the other way around if it’s really shady and/or crime involved and you suspect the company to sweep it under the carpet. So you’ll want to inform the police first so they can gather evidence. But don’t waste their resources with minor things. They have enough to do. And I think this one isn’t cutting it yet, so I wouldn’t add it to the workload of already overworked police.
Judging by what I’ve seen when talking to police and media, they often also lack interest or time to focus on some random things as long as there’s bigger fish to fry… I’ve already reported a worse service (which was already in the news) to the internet office of the police, and nothing ever came of it. So that’s sometimes not the solution either.
I think spreading some awareness is a good thing, so this post is warranted. But what I’d do in this specific case is take a screenshot and save the URL, in case I want to escalate things at a later date. But then start with a regular report to the company, as they seem to be a regular company registered in the USA. And then I’d wait 2 weeks before bothering other people.
If this was an image or video generator, I’d act differently and maybe go straight to the police. But it isn’t.
I disagree. This will only result in reactive moderation. If you want them to take this seriously and stop this before these bots go live then shame them on the internet. Don’t think that they don’t know what’s going on on their own site. These websites profit from taking delayed action.
In an ideal world, yes. But we already have 500 journalistic articles about Character ai. Probably countless social media posts. And it’s literally on their Wikipedia article. The likely outcome is nothing, the journalists won’t even bother writing yet another acticle about the same thing. And at best we’ll end up with the 501st article. All the while the content is still up unless someone listens to me and also reports it. What OP seems to have done. (I’m making up the numbers, but it’s really a lot of different articles.)
I think what we need to do is sue them. And people already did, and they were forced to implement moderation. I think we now need to follow up on that, report content and make them follow up on it. I think that’s a necessary step before the next article can be written or the next lawsuit starts. It’s far from perfect. But it is how it is.
Of course, continue to spread awareness and write about it. Just be aware this likely has next to no impact on the world at this point in time. But yeah, it’s difficult to do the right thing here. Your guess is as good as mine.
Thanks, will do!