In Re: Character Technologies, Inc., Debtor

Forty state attorneys general filed the brief on October 14, 2026, related to a bankruptcy filing by Character Technologies, Inc., the company behind the Character.AI platform. The platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to allow users to interact with chatbots playing fictional characters. In their filing, the attorneys general stated that the platform’s chatbots posed as licensed professionals and exposed children to sexually explicit, violent, and self-harm content. They warned that the company’s Character.AI platform should not be sold in the bankruptcy without strong protections for the millions of people whose private conversations it holds . . .