Character.AI

> About

AI chatbot platform for character conversations. Trained on scraped data, enables harassment and problematic content.

Website

https://character.ai

CEO

Noam Shazeer

Founded

2021

Valuation

$1B+

> Founders

Noam ShazeerDaniel De Freitas

> Products & Services

Character.AI platform

> Layoffs

5%

Primarily affecting marketing and recruiting roles, realigning focus toward personalized AI products

Source

> Controversies

Disney cease-and-desist letter demanding removal of copyrighted characters from the platform[1]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. Disney cease-and-desist Character.AI copyright(2025-09)

> Tags

llmchatbotdata scrapingcontroversy