After announcing last month that it would prohibit teens from having open-ended chats with AI chatbots, Character.AI this week introduced a new way to interact with AI-powered characters. You can now choose some characters, pick a genre and generate guided stories.

Think of the concept as a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure book for the AI age. Instead of turning the page on a pre-written tale, you're telling a large language model where to go next.

Character.AI framed the move as a way to allow children to get entertainment from interacting with their favorite AI bots. (The platform has a collection of customized "characters" with different traits and "personalities" for people to interact with.) Those under age 18 are no longer able to have open-ended conversations with bots on t

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