”Character.ai’s CEO Karandeep Anand is joining Disney in a newly created role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Karan expects to be joined by members of Character’s technical team to build on Disney’s impressive technology capabilities to help connect fans worldwide with its beloved stories and characters in new and innovative ways.”

— https://blog.character.ai/the-next-chapter-of-entertainment-...

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martianvoid an hour ago | parent | next [-]

These people are playing on a completely different league

	▲	IncreasePosts 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		At least Anand has been in the business for like 30 years. I didn't know anything about him but I assumed he was a 25 year old from Stanford that VCs decided to shower money on

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mmo93 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sets up the most vile company preying on lonely people, runs it into the ground - then gets hired to do the exact same thing for a bigger company. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it

	▲	fooqux 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I can't even imagine what George would say today. I know things weren't great in the 80s, but this seems to be a whole new level of stupid.

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rektomatic 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm imagining the horrors of character bots themed and named after popular disney characters at the expense of our youth. Dystopian stuff