Mother sues AI chatbot company Character.AI, Google over son's suicide

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A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI, accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son's suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company's service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday (Oct 22) in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with "anthropomorphic, hypersexualised, and frighteningly realistic experiences". She said the company programmed its