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California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns
California lawmakers are trying to address safety concerns surrounding AI chatbots but they're also facing pushback from the ...
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California Lawmakers Consider Possible Dangers of AI Chatbots
A bill under consideration by the state Legislature would require operators of companion chatbot platforms to remind users ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...
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A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
Megan Garcia is currently embroiled in a lengthy legal case against Google and an AI chatbot startup after her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide minutes after talking to an AI bot.
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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
The lawsuit, filed in October in Florida on behalf of his mother, Megan Garcia, alleges that her child was emotionally ... Character.AI platform displaying our client's deceased son, Sewell Setzer III ...
Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion for a deal with Character.AI. Now, it's entangled in a lawsuit over a teen's suicide.
Just moments before 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide ... a character from "Game of Thrones." Setzer's mother, Megan Garcia, said in a civil suit filed at an Orlando federal court ...
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Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?
Partway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call ... now both at the same K-12 academy that her firstborn ...