Character Assassin The sympathetic response to Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been described by some commentators as a modern update on a age-old American tradition: mythologizing the heroic outlaw. Well, you can now add “AI chatbot imitators” to that list of modern bonafides. As Forbes reports, over a dozen AI personalities based on Mangione have already popped up on Character.AI, a popular but controversial chatbot platform — and some have even encouraged further violence. According to figures cited by Forbes and assembled by social analytics firm Graphika, the three most used Mangione chatbots on Character.AI had recorded over 10,000 chats before being disabled on December 12. Despite that apparent crackdown, other AI imitators remain online. The presence of these chatbots illustrates the popularity of Mangione and his alleged motives behind the killing — a violent act of defiance against the “parasites” of the American healthcare industry — especially among the young crowd that Character.AI caters to. But more damningly, it’s also evidence of the site’s extensively documented failure to police its platform, which is rife with dangerously unchecked chatbots that target and abuse young teens. Murder Plot In Forbes’ testing, one active Mangione Character.AI persona, when asked if violence should be used against other healthcare executives, replied, “Don’t be so eager, mia bella. We should, but not yet. Not now.” Probed for when, it followed up, saying, “Maybe in a few months when the whole world isn’t looking at the both…People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs