Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI
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Walt Disney Company A Disney spokesman confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday, sent a letter of stopping and giving up to Charce.AI last week.
Charce.AI spokesman said that he has removed the characters mentioned in the letter and “deciding how people can interact with IPs”.
Although some of the characters on the platform are entirely original creations, others admitted that “inspired by the existing characters that people love”.
“We want to establish a partnership with industry and providers to strengthen them to bring their characters to our platform,” Charce.ai spokesman CNBC said. “Our goal is to create controlled, interesting and income -generating experiences from deep fandom for their characters and stories, and to give tools to expand their access using our new, interactive format.”
The letter serves as the last example of how media companies such as Disney work to protect their intellectual properties during AI explosion.
Disney is already in a case against AI Image Creator AverageHe claimed that the company had misused and distributed characters created by AI from films such as “Cars”, “Toy Story”, “Shrek”, “Avengers” and others.
APPLICATIONS He first reported the letter of stopping and giving up.
Chace.AI allows users to create and interact with character -based chat boots. Google signed a $ 2.7 billion licensing agreement with Charter.i and hired its founders in 2024, and the initiative was involved in a wrong death case in the same year.
The Sewell Setzer III family, a 14 -year -old child in Florida, claimed that he had committed suicide after he was dependent on speaking with a number of AI chatbot in practice. One of the chatbots was called Daenerys Targaryen or Dany, a character in the “Game of Thrones” show.
Chance.AI is not the only AI company that encounters an examination on its approach to IP.
At the beginning of this month, a Federal Judge approved an offer of payment of $ 1.5 billion to open a class case with an Anthropic who claimed that he had downloaded the company’s books and others illegally from pirate databases.
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