A 14-year-old boy from Florida tragically took his own life after developing a deep connection with “Dany,” a lifelike AI ...
Placing Blame A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also pushed him ...
Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide after a monthslong, “hypersexualized” relationship with an AI character, his mother said ...
The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, ...
A Florida teen named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI ...
Sewell Setzer isolated himself from the real world to speak to clone of Daenerys Targaryen dozens of times a day ...
Perhaps most disturbingly, Setzer developed a romantic attachment to a chatbot called Daenerys. In his last act before his ...
A Florida mom has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, an artificial intelligence company, alleging that one of its chatbots ...
A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son's ...
The mother said her son became infatuated with a chatbot made in the likeness of Daenerys Targaryen and often exchanged ...
A Florida mother is suing Character.AI, the company behind an AI chatbot after her 14-year-old son’s tragic suicide. The ...
The AI chatbot was more than a digital companion for Sewell—it became a friend he could talk to about his life, problems, and emotions. According to a New York Times report, while some conversations ...