Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered "pure speech" deserving of the highest degree of protection under the First Amendment. In their motion to dismiss ...

The Orlando Division of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida will hear allegations against Character ...

Character.AI claims that a finding of liability in the Garcia case would not violate its own speech rights, but its users’ rights to receive information and interact with chatbot outputs as ...

Experts say that the "historic" order may move the needle on navigating future products liability cases involving artificial ...

Judge Anne Conway of the Middle District of Florida denied Character.ai the ability to present its fictional, artificial ...

ElevenLabs' 'most expressive' v3 model can speak with a huge range of emotions in more than 70 languages. Try it for yourself.

Essentially, Character.AI's legal team is saying that holding it accountable for the actions of its chatbots would restrict its users' right to free speech — a claim that it connects to prior ...

A judge ruled that the First Amendment does not protect AI chatbots, allowing a wrongful death lawsuit to go through after ...

Teen’s mother claims son shot himself in the head in 2024 after becoming obsessed with software character powered by ...

But she wrote in a court order released Wednesday that she was not ready to rule on the argument that the chatbot’s messages are protected speech “at this stage,” adding that the defendants ...

Should AI chatbots have the same rights as humans? Common sense says no — while such a far-fetched idea might make for good sci-fi, it has no place in American law. But right now, a major tech ...