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 ...

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban ...

open image in gallery Screenshot of a Character.AI ‘Daenerys’ talking to Sewell Setzer about his suicidal ideation (US District Court Middle District of Florida Orlando Division) In one exchange, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.

“We believe that if Sewell Setzer had not been on Character.AI, he would be alive today,” said Matthew Bergman, founder of the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is representing Garcia.

A Florida mom is suing an artificial intelligence company after her son took his own life following a months ... Sewell Setzer, became addicted to the Character.AI’s chatbot services, which ...

A Florida mother filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the artificial intelligence company Character.AI allegedly caused the suicide of her 14-year-old son. ... Sewell Setzer, with 'anthropomorphic ...

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 ...

A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company, Character.AI, ... In February, Megan Garcia's 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, III died by suicide.

The suit was filed by a mother from Florida, Megan Garcia, who alleges that her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III fell victim to a Character.AI chatbot that pulled him into what she described as ...

Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old from Florida, took his life after interactions with chatbots on the Character.AI platform, a lawsuit filed by his mother, Megan Garcia, claims. The complaint claims ...

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III knew that Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot based on a character of Game of Thrones, was not a real person but he developed an emotional attachment and used to text the ...