Character AI’s video avatars could deepen user engagement, risk parasocial AI relationships

The news: Character AI announced a video-generation model for platform characters for creative use and more engaged chatbot conversations.

  • The model, called AvatarFX, can create animated videos of Character AI’s virtual characters with audio or generate videos from a single uploaded image.
  • AvatarFX is available in closed beta and will launch broadly in the coming months.