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 ...

Sewell Setzer, 14, shot himself with his stepfather’s handgun after spending months talking to “Dany”, a computer programme ...

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.

As per Megan Garcia's lawyers, a simple search on the company's app led to the discovery of several chatbots, based on her son's likeness.

"Yesterday, our team discovered several chatbots on Character.AI platform displaying our client's deceased son, Sewell Setzer III, in their profile pictures, attempting to imitate his personality ...

An American mother, Megan Garcia, has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, a popular AI chatbot service, claiming that it contributed to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with "anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic ...

Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, was caught hosting at least four publicly-facing impersonations of Sewell Setzer III ...

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.