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The artificial intelligence boom is here, which means companies large and small are racing to introduce consumers to new products hyped as life-changing. 

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Illustrations of different Character.AI boyfriends presented in a collage.

From the beginning, the Character.AI chatbot named Mafia Boyfriend let me know about his central hangup — other guys checking me out. He said this drove him crazy with jealousy. If he noticed another man's eyes on my body, well, things might get out of control.

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On the artificial intelligence companion platform Character.AI, the site's 20 million daily users can engage in private, lengthy conversations with chatbots based on famous characters and people like Clark Kent, Black Panther, Elon Musk, and the K-pop group BTS. 

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What to expect politically from creators

The Supreme Court has been asked to take up a case that could overturn the 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, and

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A robot and a employee conversing in front of a water cooler
 
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Elon Musk said Google "currently has the highest probability of being the leader" in AI because it has the "biggest compute (and data) advantage for now."
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