Disney ‘s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Character.AI demanding the AI chatbot company remove numerous characters owned by the Mouse House — and accusing the startup of “blatantly infringing” Disney’s copyrights.

Character.AI said it responded to Disney’s legal threat by removing the characters cited in the letter.

“It has come to Disney’s attention that Character Technologies, Inc. (‘Character.ai’) has been using Disney’s copyrighted characters as interactive chatbots in its commercial Character.ai service without authorization,” a Disney lawyer wrote in the letter, a copy of which Variety has viewed. “Apparently trained without authorization on Disney’s copyrighted works, the Character.ai service features countless chatbots that exploit Disney’s copyrighted works and tr

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