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Character.ai is "causing serious harms to thousands of kids, including suicide, self-mutilation, sexual solicitation, isolation, depression, anxiety, and harm towards others," it says.

For example, in 2017 the state of New Jersey passed legislation expressly prohibiting the housing of “vulnerable populations in solitary confinement,” which included prisoners with a history of mental illness or those exhibiting recent conduct like self-mutilation.

The 16 performances represented in the gallery by videos, photographs and drawings include more than a decade of ordeals of endurance and self-mutilation, in which the often-stoic artist evokes the brutal history of colonialism, racism and enslavement.

Monkeys kept as pets and made to perform tricks suffer from psychological trauma that manifests in extreme aggression, repetitive movements, and self-mutilation, as well as physical damage that may be irreversible, she says.

It’s just self-mutilation and destruction on a larger stage than the Jim Jones electric Kool Aid cyanide test.