Some of the chatbot’s interactions with the 14-year-old were “highly sexual,” Bergman told HuffPost. “If an adult had the ...

A 14-year-old boy tragically took his own life after ... The boy, named Sewell Setzer III, had named the chatbot on Character.AI after the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen.

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.

Last fall, Megan Garcia sued Character.AI, its founders, and Google over the death by suicide of her 14-year-old son, who had chatted continuously with its bots, including just before his death.

According to Garcia, her 14-year-old developed an emotional attachment to a chatbot on Character AI, “Dany,” which he texted constantly — to the point where he began to pull away from the ...

Singer Donny Osmond has revealed he will be sharing the stage with a version of himself from 1972 “thanks to some mind-blowing AI and CGI technology”. The avatar, depicting a 14-year-old ...

a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to suicide. Now, Character ...

AI companions provide a safe space where teens can explore ideas and sort things out, like a journal but with a feedback loop ...