Sewell Setzer III, who was 14 from Orlando, Florida, befriended an AI character named after Daenerys Targaryen on the role-playing app Character.AI. His mum, Megan Garcia, has now filed a lawsuit against the company over her son’s death.

Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that "abused and preyed" on the boy, according to his mother who is suing the company behind the tech.

Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.

A teenage boy shot himself in the head after discussing suicide with an AI chatbot that he fell in love with. Sewell Setzer, 14, shot himself with his stepfather’s handgun after spending months talking to “Dany”,

A 14-year-old boy ended his life in Florida after falling in love with an AI chatbot ‘Daenerys Targaryen’ which is named after the leading character from drama series Game of Thrones.

A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her,