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A mother is suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide moments after talking to its chatbot.Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is also named as a defendant in the case.Character AI’s founders were re-hired by Google as part of a deal reportedly worth $2.7 billion. Just moments before 14-year-old Sewell Setzer…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son’s suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company’s service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court,…
Two tribes are suing social media giants, accusing them of contributing to the high suicide rates among Native teenagers by purposely getting kids hooked on their platforms.The lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday. One was brought on behalf of the Spirit Lake Tribe in North…
