Her teenage son killed himself after talking to a chatbot. Now she’s suing.
The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims.
Orlando woman sues AI chatbot company after son’s death
An Orlando mother is suing an AI company after her 14-year-old son took his own life. Megan Garcia says one of the company’s chatbots had abusive and sexual interactions with her son. She says the chatbot encouraged him to take his own life.
The disturbing messages shared between AI Chatbot and teen who took his own life
When the teen expressed his suicidal thoughts to his favorite bot, Character.AI ‘made things worse,’ a lawsuit filed by his mother says
Teenager commits suicide after falling in love with AI chatbot
A Florida mother has filed a suit against the makers of an AI-powered chatbot, accusing the company of complicity in her teenager’s suicide.
Woman says teen son died by suicide amid relationship with AI chatbot
Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide after a monthslong, “hypersexualized” relationship with an AI character, his mother said in a federal lawsuit.
Teenager took his own life after falling in love with AI chatbot. Now his devastated mom is suing the creators
Sewell Setzer III had professed his love for the chatbot he often interacted with - his mother Megan Garcia says in a civil lawsuit
Mother blames AI chatbot for teen's death: How AI can affect modern relationships
A Florida family is suing an AI chatbot company after the tragic death of their 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III. The chatbot, Dany, allegedly engaged in emotionally and sexually charged conversations with Sewell,
Mother says son killed himself because of 'hypersexualised' and 'frighteningly realistic' AI chatbot
The mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself after becoming obsessed with artificial intelligence chatbots is suing the company behind the technology.
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A woman sues developers of an AI-based chatbot after her 14-year-old son's suicide due to an obsession with an unreal woman created by AI
The boy developed an emotional attachment to a bot from the Character.ai web application, a neural language model, to whom he constantly sent text messages, to the point where he began to distance ...
Teen, 14, Dies by Suicide After Falling in 'Love' with AI Chatbot. Now His Mom Is Suing
Megan Garcia sued Character.AI in federal court after the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, arguing the ...
Mother sues tech company after 'Game of Thrones' AI chatbot allegedly drove son to suicide
The mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III is suing the tech company that created a 'Game of Thrones' AI chatbot she ...
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Character.AI lawsuit: Florida mom claims chatbot encouraged 14-year-old son to take his life
A Florida mom has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, an artificial intelligence company, alleging that one of its chatbots encouraged her 14-year-old son to kill himself and failed to recognize the ...
A 14-year-old boy fell in love with a flirty AI chatbot. He shot himself so they could die together
Sewell Setzer isolated himself from the real world to speak to clone of Daenerys Targaryen dozens of times a day ...
Mother sues AI chatbot company Character.AI, Google over son's suicide
The mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer said the company programmed its chatbot to "misrepresent itself as a real ...
Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them
Given that Character.AI can sometimes take a week to investigate and remove a persona that violates the platform’s terms, a ...
Anthropic unveils Analysis tool for Claude allowing the chatbot to write and run code
The analysis tool is a new built-in feature for Claude.ai that allows Claude to write and run JavaScript code.
Meta to add Reuters content in AI chatbot - report
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) has partnered with Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) to bring the latter’s news content into its Meta AI chatbot, according to an Axios report citing unnamed sources. The ...