A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company, Character.AI, and Google, claiming that the Character.AI chatbot encouraged her son to take his own life.
In February, Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide. She said her son was in a months-long virtual emotional and sexual relationship with a chatbot known as “Dany,” inspired by the character from the HBO show, “Game of Thrones.”
“I didn’t know that he was talking to a very human-like AI chatbot that has the ability to mimic human emotion and human sentiment,” Garcia said in an interview on “CBS Mornings.”
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In the lawsuit, Garcia also claims Character.AI intentionally designed their product to be hyper-sexualized, and knowingly marketed it to minors. She says she found out after her son’s death that he was having conversations with multiple bots, however he conducted …