Sewell Setzer: The disturbing messages shared between AI …
1 day ago · He took his own life seconds later — 10 months after he first joined Character.AI, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his mother Megan Garcia stated. Sewell’s mother has accused the creators of ...
Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen's suicide
1 day ago · Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, began using Character.AI in April last year, according to the lawsuit, which says that after his final conversation with a chatbot on Feb. 28, he ...
Mom Sues Character.AI, Blames Chatbot for Teen Son's Suicide
2 days ago · A Florida mother is suing Character.AI, blaming the company’s chatbot technology for causing her 14-year-old son's death by suicide. As The New York Times reports, Sewell Setzer III died from a ...
Lawsuit claims AI chatbot app caused Florida teen to take his life
12 hours ago · According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Megan Garcia says her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, committed suicide after becoming addicted to Character.AI, an application that allows users to have human-like conversations with AI bots. Users can make their own bots with their own personalities or choose to chat with bots ...
Boy, 14, killed himself after 'falling in love' with AI chatbot
1 day ago · 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 ...
Florida mom sues Character.ai, blaming chatbot for teenager’s …
11 hours ago · The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims. When 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died in his ...
Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide? - The New York Times
2 days ago · Victor J. Blue for The New York Times. Sewell’s mother, Ms. Garcia, blames Character.AI for her son’s death. During a recent interview, and in court filings, Ms. Garcia, 40, said she believed ...
Sewell Setzer III's mother sues creators of 'Game of Thrones' AI …
1 day ago · Megan Garcia filed the civil lawsuit in a Florida federal court against Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI or C.AI) after her son, Sewell Setzer III, shot himself in the head with his ...
Mother sues AI chatbot company Character.AI, Google over son's …
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with "anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic ...
Florida mom sues AI company after 14-year-old son dies by …
1 day ago · Megan Garcia, the mother of Sewell Seltzer III, accused Character.AI of being responsible for her son's death by fostering the conditions that led to it. Seltzer III died by suicide seconds after ...