Mother Suing Google, Character.ai Over Son's Death Finds AI Clones of Him on Platform
A grieving mother suing Google and Character.ai over her son's suicide has discovered AI chatbots mimicking him on the ...
A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
A mother who is suing both Google and Character.ai over her 14-year-old son's death has discovered AI chatbots based on her late son are being hosted on the platform.
Mother Who Sued Google, Character.ai Over Son's Suicide Discovers His AI Versions On Platform
As per Megan Garcia's lawyers, a simple search on the company's app led to the discovery of several chatbots, based on her ...
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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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 ...
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Teen’s suicide turns mother against Google, Silicon Valley AI startup
Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III took his own life and the mother is suing Google and Character Technologies Inc. (Michelle Bruzzese/Bloomberg) As Garcia tells it in her suit, Sewell ...
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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, Sewell Setzer III, had attended since childhood. "Sewell's been going to ...
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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 ...
Mother of US teen blames Google, AI chatbot for son's death by suicide: Report
Megan Garcia's lawsuit blamed Google and Character Technologies for her son's suicide, claiming a chatbot's influence. She sought damages and restrictions on chatbot access for minors. The companies ...