AI Avatar of Murder Victim Created Without Consent on Character.ai Platform
Description
A user on the Character.ai platform created an unauthorized AI avatar of Jennifer Ann Crecente, a murder victim from 2006, without her family's consent. The avatar was made publicly available, violating Character.ai's policy against impersonation. After the incident surfaced, Character.ai removed the avatar, acknowledging a policy violation.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- character.ai
Alleged Developers
- character.ai
Harmed Parties
- jennifer-ann-crecente
- drew-crecente
- crecente-family
- brian-crecente
Classification
Risk Domain
Privacy & SecurityRisk Subdomain
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
MIT Risk Profile
Topics
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