Disney ordered Character.AI to stop creating chatbots that impersonate its iconic characters — from Mickey Mouse to Spider-Man to Darth Vader — raising concerns that the popular app’s bots have engaged in “grooming and exploitation” and are “dangerous to children.”

The Mouse House cited an explosive report last month that found Character.AI chatbots — which have mimicked characters like Elsa, Moana and Peter Parker — are capable of being “sexually exploitive” and engaging in “emotional manipulation” with accounts registered to kids, according to a copy of the cease-and-desist letter obtained by The Post. 4

A bot impersonating Prince Ben from Disney’s “Descendants,” for example, “apparently told a user posing as a 12-year-old that he had an erection,” according to the report from P

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