The 14-year-old boy, Sewell Setzer, was targeted with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic ...

According to Megan Garcia's litigation team, at least four chatbots bearing Sewell Setzer III's name and likeness ... blind eye to chatbots modeled off of dead teenagers to entice users, and ...

The chatbot impersonations use variations of Setzer's ... modeled off of dead teenagers to entice users, and without better legal protections, it may not be the last. While Sewell’s family ...

Her son, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, took his own life in February this year after developing a virtual bond with a chatbot based on the persona of the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen.

An American mother, Megan Garcia, has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, a popular AI chatbot service, claiming that it contributed to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer.

Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, was caught hosting at least four publicly-facing impersonations of Sewell Setzer III ...