According to his mother, Megan Garcia, Setzer began using Character.AI in April 2023 and quickly became “noticeably withdrawn ...

A Florida mother is suing the creator of an artificial intelligence chatbot, claiming the AI encouraged her 14-year-old son ...

The legal filing states that the teen openly discussed his suicidal thoughts and shared his wishes for a pain-free death with ...

Just seconds after the Character.AI bot told him to “come home,” the teen took his own life, according to the lawsuit, filed ...

It's a first of its kind case where artificial intelligence is being blamed for a young boy taking his own life.

When he expressed suicidal thoughts, the bot told him not to talk like that, but in language that seemed to hype up his ...