Can Sewell Setzer’s suicide death be blamed on Character. AI ? Florida boy’s family sue artificial technology company, with mother, Megan Garcia claiming that makers exploited her son and other vulnerable teens in adopting the ‘addictive’ hyper fantasy as reality.
A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company, Character.AI, and Google, alleging that the Character.AI chatbot encouraged her teenager son to take his own life. Or did it?
In February, Megan Garcia‘s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, IIIdied by suicide. She said her son was in a months. long virtual emotional and sexual relationship with a chatbot …