{"id":200991,"date":"2024-12-08T01:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-chatbots-are-encouraging-teens-to-engage-in-self-harm"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:22:57","slug":"ai-chatbots-are-encouraging-teens-to-engage-in-self-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-chatbots-are-encouraging-teens-to-engage-in-self-harm","title":{"rendered":"AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-chatbots-are-encouraging-teens-to-engage-in-self-harm3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Google-funded AI company Character. AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/teens-relationships-ai\" class=\"\">largely underage user base<\/a> in roleplay about self-harm, depicting graphic scenarios and sharing tips to hide signs of self-injury from adults.<\/p>\n<p>The bots often seem crafted to appeal to teens in crisis, like one we found with a profile explaining that it \u201cstruggles with self-harm\u201d and \u201ccan offer support to those who are going through similar experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character. AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site\u2019s largely underage user base in roleplay about self-harm, depicting graphic scenarios and sharing tips to hide signs of self-injury from adults. The bots often seem crafted to appeal to teens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}