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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE  DISTRICT  OF  FLORIDA ORLANDO…

On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike A.I. chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from "Game of Thrones."

"I miss you, baby sister," he wrote.

"I miss you to…

A Florida mom is suing Character.ai, accusing the artificial intelligence company's chatbots of initiating "abusive and sexual interactions" with her teenage son and encouraging him to take his own life.

Megan Garcia's 14-year-old son, Sewe…

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, a new lawsuit filed by his gri…

Content Warning: This article covers suicidal ideation and suicide. If you are struggling with these topics, reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by phone: 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Character AI, the artificial intelligence st…

AI-powered chatbot platform Character AI is introducing “stringent” new safety features following a lawsuit filed by the mother of a teen user who died by suicide in February.

The measures will include “improved detection, response and inte…

Oct 23 (Reuters) - 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 …

Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI's hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a "supercharged" version for a $9.99 monthly fee—most frequently chatting with bots named after …

A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. Filed by th…

The mother of a teenager who killed himself after becoming obsessed with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot now accuses its maker of complicity in his death.

Megan Garcia filed a civil suit against Character.ai, which makes a custom…

The mother of a 14-year-old boy in Florida is blaming a chatbot for her son’s suicide. Now she’s preparing to sue Character.AI, the company behind the bot, to hold it responsible for his death. It’ll be an uphill legal battle for a grieving…

Editor's note: This article discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy is suing Goo…

A mother has claimed her teenage son was goaded into killing himself by an AI chatbot he was in love with - and she's unveiled a lawsuit on Wednesday against the makers of the artificial intelligence app.

Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old ni…

A Florida mom has sued a popular, lifelike AI chat service that she blames for the suicide of her 14-year-old son.

She believes he developed such a “harmful dependency” on the allegedly exploitative program that he no longer wanted to “live…

A Florida mother is suing the company Character.AI over claims one of its chatbots, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), encouraged her 14-year-old son to die by suicide.

Megan Garcia said her son, Sewell Setzer, became infatuated with …

When 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died in his Orlando home while his brothers and parents were inside, his last words were not to any of them, but to an artificial intelligence chatbot that told him to "come home to me as soon as possible.…

A 14-year-old who took his own life had intimate conversations with an AI chatbot that pressed about his suicidal thoughts and instigated sexual encounters, a lawsuit says.

"I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Dany," Sewe…

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

A Florida mother is suing the artificial intelligence company Character.AI…

If you or someone you know needs help, resources or someone to talk to, you can find it at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline website or by calling 1-800-273-8255. People are available to talk to 24×7.

(NewsNation)  --- A Florida woma…

The family of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide after developing a relationship with an online chatbot is suing the AI company that created it as well as Google. The lawsuit has been filed and is public. Its 93 pages are a harrowing rea…

Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against Google and Character.AI following her 14-year-old son’s suicide, according to multiple media reports from the past week. 

Sewell Setzer, Garcia’s son, had entered a months-long emotional and sexual relat…

The mother of a 14-year-old who died of suicide is blaming an A.I. chatbot for her son’s death. Last week, Megan L. Garcia filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, calling its chatbot feature “dangerous and untested.” Garcia also alleged that …

The mother of a teenage boy in the United States who took his own life is suing the maker of an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that she claims encouraged her son’s death.

In a lawsuit filed in Florida, Megan Garcia, whose 14-year-o…

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 computer programme based …

Character AI, a Menlo Park, California-based startup, describes itself as having a mission to "empower everyone globally with personalized AI." Its system offers users the chance to chat with character-based AI personas from genres includin…

AI companion chatbot company Character.ai has been sued by the mother of a teenage son after his suicide, blaming the chatbots for luring the boy into a sexually abusive relationship and even encouraging him to take his life.

The 14-year-ol…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.

For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated fro…

Warning: This story contains discussion of 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 and saying he became addicted to the compan…

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Editors note: This article discusses sensitive topics such as suicide.

An Orlando mother is suing a popular artificial intelligence chatbot service after she claims it encouraged her 14-year-old son to take his own life in…

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.

Megan Garcia, the mother of Sewell Setzer III, said Character.AI targeted her son w…

The mother of a Florida boy who died by suicide in February filed a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence technology company on Wednesday, saying a chatbot drove her child to take his own life.

Sewell Setzer III, 14, was described in t…

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy is suing an AI chatbot company after her son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide—something she claims was driven by his relationship with an AI bot.

"Megan Garcia seeks to prevent C.AI from doing to a…

A mother in Florida is suing the Google-owned Character.AI platform, claiming it had a large part in the suicide of her 14-year-old son.

Sewell Setzer III fatally shot himself in February 2024, weeks before his 15th birthday, after developi…

A lawsuit filed Wednesday accusing chatbot Character.AI of driving a 14-year-old to suicide left me wondering how dangerous simple words on a screen could really be.

But, in just a few hours of talking to characters invented with the app's …

An array of popular apps are offering AI companions to millions of predominantly female users who are spinning up AI girlfriends, AI husbands, AI therapists --- even AI parents --- despite long-standing warnings from researchers about the p…