FLORIDA: A Florida-based woman has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI, accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son’s suicide in February as he became deeply attached to a chatbot it created.
In a lawsuit filed in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualised, and frighteningly realistic experiences”. The lawsuit also targets Google, where its founders worked before launching their product.