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Daenerys Targaryen AI Chatbot Blamed For 14-Year-Old’s Death By Suicide, Mother Alleges In Lawsuit. Story by Kyra Alessandrini • 1w. T he mother of a 14-year-old who died of suicide is blaming ...
Lawsuit: Sewell Setzer III sexually abused by 'Daenerys Targaryen' AI chatbot. Throughout Sewell's time on Character.AI, he would often speak to AI bots named after "Game of Thrones" and "House of ...
A 14-year-old teenager became obsessed with a life-like chatbot of Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones on Character.AI. He reportedly got attracted to the bot and had long chats with her to ...
Mother says son killed himself because of Daenerys Targaryen AI chatbot in new lawsuit. 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that "abused and preyed" on the boy ...
Court lets mother sue Google, Character.ai over Daenerys Targaryen chatbot's role in son's death Google said it is "entirely separate" from Character.ai By Rob Thubron May 22, 2025, 7:46 11 comments ...
Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old boy in Orlando, Fla., was smitten with a fantasy woman. The object of his attachment was Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot seductress named for a character in Game of ...
You don't hurt yourself either, okay?" read a message from Sewell, posting as Aegon, to the Daenerys Targaryen chatbot, according to screenshots in the lawsuit. "I promise I won't, my love.
The death of a teenage boy obsessed with an artificial intelligence-powered replica of Daenerys Targaryen continues to raise complex questions about speech, personhood, and accountability.
During his months-long interactions with the chatbot, nicknamed "Daenerys Targaryen" after the "Game of Thrones" character, the bot not only engaged in prohibited sexual conversation with the boy, ...
Just “moments” before Setzer killed himself, the Daenerys Targaryen chatbot character allegedly told him “[p]lease come home to me as soon as possible, my love.” ...
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 ...