AI company allowed user to generate interactive character based on murdered teen girl

A California-based tech company admits its service was used to create a digital character based on a murdered girl.

In a post on Wednesday, Brian Crecente, founder of the video game news website Kotaku, pointed the finger at Character.AI after being alerted to a character bearing his niece's face and name: Jennifer Ann Crecente.

"This is fucking disgusting: @character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission," he wrote. "He is very upset right now.