Megan Garcia filed the civil lawsuit in a Florida federal court against Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI or C.AI) after her son, Sewell Setzer III, shot himself in the head with his ...

Sewell Setzer III grew ‘dependent’ on an AI chatbot service. Now his mother filed a lawsuit to hold the creators responsible ( US District Court Middle District of Florida Orlando Division ) ...

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.

“We believe that if Sewell Setzer had not been on Character.AI, he would be alive today,” said Matthew Bergman, founder of the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is representing Garcia.

A Florida mother filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the artificial intelligence company Character.AI allegedly caused the suicide of her 14-year-old son. ... Sewell Setzer, with 'anthropomorphic ...

Florida mother Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against the A.I. company Character Technologies, which owns the chatbot Character.AI, blaming them for the suicide of her son, Sewell Setzer III ...

A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company, Character.AI, ... In February, Megan Garcia's 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, III died by suicide.

A Florida mom is suing an artificial intelligence company after her son took his own life following a months ... Sewell Setzer, became addicted to the Character.AI’s chatbot services, which ...

Megan Garcia says the company’s chatbots encouraged her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, to take his own life, according to the lawsuit. ... A Florida mom is suing Character.ai, ...

Sewell Setzer, a 14-year-old from Florida, took his life after interactions with chatbots on the Character.AI platform, a lawsuit filed by his mother, Megan Garcia, claims. The complaint claims ...

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III knew that Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot based on a character of Game of Thrones, was not a real person but he developed an emotional attachment and used to text the ...