A user took to the billion-dollar AI companion platform Character.AI to make a chatbot version of a murdered teen nearly two decades after her tragic death, AdWeek first reported earlier this month. Now, the late girl’s father is speaking out about the experience of discovering that his daughter’s name and likeness were bottled into a chatbot without his consent. Jennifer Crecente, of Austin, Texas, was just 18 years old when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2006. Her father, Drew Crecente, founded and continues to run a nonprofit dedicated to teen dating violence in her memory. (Her mother, Elizabeth Crecente, founded a different nonprofit with the same mission.) As Drew told The Washington Post this week, it “takes quite a bit for me to be shocked, because I really have been through quite a bit.” “But this,” he added, referring to the chatbot, “was a new low.” Drew explained that he was notified of the bot’s existence by a Google alert, which took him to a Character.AI profile outfitted with Jennifer’s name and yearbook picture. As screenshots of the profile show, she was marketed to other platform users as a “knowledgeable and friendly” AI persona of a “video game journalist.” Part of the profile was written in first person, with “Jennifer” claiming to “geek out on video games, technology, and pop culture.” None of this, Drew pointed out to WaPo, was true to Jennifer; indeed, the bizarre description was likely the result of an AI model confusing Jennifer with…Father Disgusted to Find His Murdered Daughter Was Brought Back as an AI