In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his real life as he engaged in highly sexualized conversations with the bot,

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The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims.

An attorney said that if a real adult had interacted with the teen like a chatbot on Character.AI had, they would "be in jail for child abuse."

A Florida family's lawsuit claims a Character.ai chatbot's interactions with her 14-year-old son contributed to his death by suicide. KNTV's Scott Budman reports.

The mother of a boy who took his own life after interacting with an AI-generated character says the company behind the technology is responsible. On the last day of his life, a 14-year-old Florida boy found his confiscated phone,

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