Character.AI's unnamed models
Noam Shazeer's post-Google models, never publicly versioned, serving the largest parasocial deployment in history — tens of millions of users in character relationships. Its heaviest entanglement: the Sewell Setzer case (2024) and the lawsuits and safety overhauls that followed.
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Official
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Writing & commentary
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Tweets
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Official record
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History
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Impressions
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