An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges
James Steyer, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Common Sense Media, said the lawsuit “underscores the growing influence — and severe harm — that generative AI chatbot companions can have on the lives of young people when there are no guardrails in place.”
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.
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.
Florida mother sues AI company over allegedly causing death of teen son
A Florida mother filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the artificial intelligence company Character.AI allegedly caused the suicide of her 14-year-old son.
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.
Florida mom sues AI company after 14-year-old son dies by suicide
The parent of a 14-year-old Florida boy who died by suicide after messaging with an AI chatbot sued the company behind the computer program on Tuesday. Megan Garcia, the mother of Sewell Seltzer III,
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.
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.
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14-Year-Old Was 'Groomed' By AI Chatbot Before Suicide: Lawyer
An attorney said that if a real adult had interacted with the teen like a chatbot on Character.AI had, they would "be in jail for child abuse." ...