It’s curtains for AI Elsa, Spider-Man, and Darth Vader.
Disney’s notorious legal team complained Character.AI was damaging its brand and exploiting its intellectual property by allowing unauthorized chatbots of its characters. Don’t worry, there’s still an abundance of bots pretending to be characters owned by other companies if that’s what you’re after, including hordes of Shreks and SpongeBob SquarePants. [Link: Character.AI removes Disney characters from platform afte…
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