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The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s latest model

Rhiannon Williams

created: Feb. 28, 2025, 1:10 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots…

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