Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy

Character.AI has been sued after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform. According to The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III, a ninth grader from Orlando, had spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI’s AI role-playing app. Setzer developed an emotional attachment to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....