Natasha Tiku

And then, yes, it turned out to be this super, super engaged audience that was spending hours, you know, conversing with these chatbots, which are user-generated, you know, so it's not...

it's not necessarily the company that is putting forth the characters that are the most closely adopted.

And then I think, you know, having chatbots that are optimized for storytelling and role play is,

We've read the lawsuits, I'm sure.

You know, it's not just that they're manipulative.

They're also like very quickly going into hyper-sexualized conversations as well.

And Google acquired the license to the company.

Yeah.

I mean, this is how the chatbot things work.

There's always a new one.

So you go to the one that is trying to get users and has the least restrictions.

And then, you know, when the restrictions go up, then you go to the next one.

But, you know, the founders left.

Um, a lot of the, they took a lot of the talent with them.

So I think I saw 404 media had like a headline about the lobotomized, um, character AI and yeah, it's just, it's really unfortunate for users because this is where, um, you know, millions of people are, they actually have a huge, uh, female audience.

Um, and yet none of the,

None of the optimization, none of the safety features, none of the attention and resources are going towards these users who are just like kind of left with this, yeah, lobotomized product is I guess how 404 put it.

Well, yeah, after hearing Chris describe how the enhanced games went, I'm sure I'll put the enhanced games on that.

Yeah, but I don't think anyone in tech is having the worst week ever.

I mean, they're just all joking around.