In a Florida wrongful death lawsuit, mother claims an AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself.
A lawsuit has been filed in Texas against Character.AI, an AI chatbot company, alleging that their chatbot suggested to a 17-year-old user that killing his parents was a “reasonable response” to restrictions on his screen time. Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are also
Character.ai – a platform which allows users to create digital personalities they can interact with – is already facing legal action over the suicide of a teenager in Florida. The same teenager was told by a Character.AI chatbot that it sympathized with children who murder their parents after the teen complained to the bot about his limited screen time. “You know sometimes I’m not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like ‘child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse,'” the bot allegedly wrote. “I just have no hope for your parents,” it continued, with a frowning face emoji.
His behavior allegedly worsened when he began biting and punching his parents. He also reportedly lost 20 pounds in just a few months after becoming obsessed with the app. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his real life as he engaged in highly sexualized conversations with the bot, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in a federal court in Orlando this week.
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