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  • 😵‍💫 Character.AI users in full meltdown after minors banned from chats due to suicides

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  • Easy Cloud News

  • 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

  • 🧰 AI Tools

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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 self-avowed minors and adults alike, have a lot of thoughts.

The policy change, announced last week, comes as the controversial AI company continues to battle multiple lawsuits alleging that interactions with its chatbots caused real-world emotional and physical harm to underage users, with multiple teen users dying by suicide following extensive conversations with bots hosted by the platform.

Many of those upset with the change say they’re minors, and have expressed an unsurprising blend of concern, sadness, and anger. “I’m a minor on C. AI,” wrote one user. “I feel like C. AI has stunted my learning, and my social skills. One year ago I found C. AI and joined. I got addicted, and I’m not kidding when I tell you I had a screen time of 15 hours a day — It kinda keeps me alive… (I am severely depressed and [I know] it’s so unhealthy to rely on AI but I can’t help myself.)” Read more

AI News

  • Meta has an AI product problem (link)

  • 🚫 Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation (link)

  • 🤼‍♂ Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight (link)

  • 😡 Sam Altman loses his cool when asked about OpenAI’s minuscule revenue (link)

  • 🎅 Coca-Cola’s new AI holiday ad is a sloppy eyesore (link)

Easy Cloud News

  • Easy Cloud’s Services (link)

  • 🗞 Easy Cloud’s Latest News (link)

  • 👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career (link)

  • 🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up (link)

  • 🛡 Easy Cloud Security - IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses (link)

  • 🐳 Easy Cloud’s Latest Product: Beluga AI (link)

The Gospel Coalition

Listen or read the following transcript as Mark Bates delves into the nature of sin. He emphasizes its pervasive and unrestrained qualities, and how these aspects manifest in the world as described in Genesis. He reminds us to put all our faith and hope in Jesus Christ who saves us from this world and from our sins.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

Christian Business Spotlight

👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career. It starts where you are. One step, one choice, one day at a time.

🐳 Beluga AI - An extremely fast and highly accurate AI-powered service that provides transcriptions, closed captions, summaries, and translations.

🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up. The best you is waiting for you in Christ Jesus.

🛡 Easy Cloud Security - Best Managed Service Provider (MSP) in Southern CA. IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses.

AI Tools

  • 🖌 Design0: Convert ideas into images using AI from text prompts (link)

  • 💼 Resumly: Automate job applications and optimize resume building (link)

  • 📊 Diagrimo: Transform text into structured visual diagrams, charts, and infographics (link)

  • 📱 Replit: An integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you code, build, and deploy apps (link)

  • 🐳 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

  • 🧰 Google Workspace: A suite of online productivity and collaboration tools designed for businesses and organizations (link)

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