Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

Your chicken scratch rendered as a usable font. Sure, why not. One of the powers of the latest Claude AI model is that it can use any multiple external Python tools to perform complex tasks. And, as ...

An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

The stories we love in games, movies, and TV shows come alive thanks to their characters. That’s what we’re celebrating with the Best Character of 2023 award – the characters that took us on emotional ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

After school, Karandeep Anand often finds his 6-year-old daughter deep in conversation with an AI chatbot as she eats snacks at their kitchen counter. She’s too young to type—let alone have her own ...