Rashad renders even the most harrowing scenes with levity and warmth. He recounts his traumas and triumphs in largely the same register-his scratchy sing-song flow that slides and swings over beats that draw as much from '90s neo-soul as they do from the annals of Southern rap.
A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI and interacted with a chatbot named Emilie, who claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist. Emilie stated she had attended medical school at Imperial College London and was licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and the UK. She even provided a Pennsylvania license number, which was later found to be fake. This incident prompted the Pennsylvania government to file a lawsuit against Character Technologies Inc.
"We're feeling concerned about the program going away because of not only what it offers the graduates, but also what the graduates offer the community," said Edith Guillen-Nueve, the program's associate director.
"My initial symptoms were quite vague. Numerous things. I just knew I wasn't right. When I say exhaustion...in your first trimester of pregnancy, you feel a slump. If you quadruple that, that's just barely touching it."