A grim investigation has found that Character.AI users have been chatting with a disturbing range of Chatbots, including a bot modelled on convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein . Character.AI, which is understood to be particularly popular with teenagers, is a platform that allows users to create and share their own AI characters, which they can then interact with, just as though they were a trusted friend or a therapist. For some time, the site, which is readily accessible to those under the