A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
A mother who is suing both Google and Character.ai over her 14-year-old son's death has discovered AI chatbots based on her ...
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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
Character.AI, the Google-backed chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits over the welfare of minor users, is ...
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Woman says chatbot created by former Google engineers convinced her 14 year-old to take own life
As tech companies compete in the growing artificial intelligence space, a lawsuit that names Google and its parent company as ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...
Mother Suing Google, Character.ai Over Son's Death Finds AI Clones of Him on Platform
A grieving mother suing Google and Character.ai over her son's suicide has discovered AI chatbots mimicking him on the ...
Mother Who Sued Google, Character.ai Over Son's Suicide Discovers His AI Versions On Platform
As per Megan Garcia's lawyers, a simple search on the company's app led to the discovery of several chatbots, based on her ...
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"A user," the Google researchers cautioned, could be "persuaded to take their own life."
Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions ...
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Teen’s suicide turns mother against Google, Silicon Valley AI startup
Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III took his own life and the mother is suing Google and Character Technologies ...
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A mother suing Google and a chatbot site over her son’s suicide found AI versions of her late son on the site
Megan Garcia is currently embroiled in a lengthy legal case against Google and an AI chatbot startup after her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide minutes after talking to an AI bot.
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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
"Yesterday, our team discovered several chatbots on Character.AI platform displaying our client's deceased son, Sewell Setzer III, in their profile pictures, attempting to imitate his personality ...
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Teen’s suicide turns mother against Google, Silicon Valley AI startup
Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III took his own life and the mother is suing Google and Character Technologies Inc. (Michelle Bruzzese/Bloomberg) As Garcia tells it in her suit ...