Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to access other features of the app such as video creation. "These are extraordinary steps for our company, and ones that, in many respects, are more conservative than our peers," Character.AI said in its announcement . "But we believe they are the right thing to do." The platform lets users build AI