Character.AI Reinforces Safety Priorities
💡Character.AI’s under-18 chat restriction offers a concrete benchmark for consumer AI safety.
⚡ 30-Second TL;DR
What Changed
Character.AI removed open-ended chats with Characters for users under 18 last year.
Why It Matters
The policy signals that age-based access controls are becoming a central safety measure for consumer conversational AI. AI product teams serving minors should expect stronger safeguards and carefully assess the risks of unrestricted interaction.
What To Do Next
Audit your conversational AI product’s age-gating flow and disable unrestricted character chat for under-18 users until child-safety risks are addressed.
Key Points
- •Character.AI removed open-ended chats with Characters for users under 18 last year.
- •The company described the under-18 restriction as one of its most significant safety decisions.
- •Character.AI acknowledged the decision was difficult for both its community and the company but considered it necessary.
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