Mother sues AI chatbot company Character.AI, Google

Mother sues AI chatbot company Character.AI, Google over son's suicide
A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son's suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company's service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created.
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 himself from the real world.
Mother claims AI chatbot is responsible for her 14-year-old son's suicide in lawsuit
Megan Garcia filed a civil lawsuit against Character.AI in Florida, accusing the creators of being the cause of her son’s death. | ITV National News
Mom Sues Character.AI, Blames Chatbot for Teen Son's Suicide
Sewell Setzer III died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the company’s chatbot allegedly encouraged him to do so. Character.AI says it's updating its approach to safety.
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A family is suing the inventors of an AI chatbot after their 14-year-old son died by suicide following an obsessive relationship with a Game of Thrones chatbot. The lawsuit claims the AI-generated characters are designed to “feel alive.
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