Florida Mother Sues Character.AI After Son Suicide Linked to Chatbot Addiction

Florida Mother Sues Character.AI After Son Suicide Linked to Chatbot Addiction

AI Chatbot Love: Megan Garcia, a woman living in Florida, has filed a lawsuit against an artificial intelligence chatbot company named Character.AI. This woman claims that due to the service of this AI company, her 14 year old son Sewell Setzer committed suicide. In the lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Orlando, Florida, Megan Garcia said Character.AI allowed her son to experience “anthropomorphic features, hypersexualization, and frighteningly realistic elements,” causing him to become addicted to the service and stop using it. Created a deep bond with a chatbot.…

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