UPDATE (10 p.m. EDT): Character.ai is back online and fully operational after users reported widespread outages earlier. Character.ai is reportedly down for hundreds of users in the United States.

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Ryan Guzman channeled his 9-1-1 character Eddie Diaz in the immediate aftermath of his real-life divorce in order to rebuff a woman’s advances. “One thing that happened that was almost verbatim from ...