Florida Mom Sues A.I. Company After Son Sewell Setzer, 14, Committed Suicide After Falling In Love With Chatbot
Florida mother Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against the A.I. company Character Technologies, which owns the chatbot Character.AI, blaming them for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III. Character.AI was founded in 2021 and offers “personalized A.I.”
It offers many premade or user-created A.I. characters to interact with, each with a unique personality. Users can also customize their own chatbots.
Garcia’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, states that her son started using Character.AI in April 2023.
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It notes that after his last conversation with a chatbot on Feb. 28, Sewell died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.
It claims that one of the bots Setzer used had taken on the identity of the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen.
The bot...
It offers many premade or user-created A.I. characters to interact with, each with a unique personality. Users can also customize their own chatbots.
Garcia’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, states that her son started using Character.AI in April 2023.
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It notes that after his last conversation with a chatbot on Feb. 28, Sewell died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.
It claims that one of the bots Setzer used had taken on the identity of the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen.
The bot...
- 10/29/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
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