A Florida mother is suing the creator of an artificial intelligence chatbot, claiming the AI encouraged her 14-year-old son ...
In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot ...
According to his mother, Megan Garcia, Setzer began using Character.AI in April 2023 and quickly became “noticeably withdrawn ...
A Florida mom is suing an artificial intelligence company after her son took his own life following a months-long interaction ...
A mother of a Florida teen Sewell Setzer is suing the makers of Character.AI, a chatbot she claims encouraged her son’s death.
"They knew that it was dangerous, they knew that it was going to be targeted and they intentionally targeted young people like Sewell Setzer," said family attorney Matthew P. Bergman.
It's a first of its kind case where artificial intelligence is being blamed for a young boy taking his own life.
As such, training an AI system on Sewell's collected writing splinters the person he once was. Critics have scoffed at the AI-written review, deeming it a pale copy that fails to capture "the ...