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 federa
  • gl4d10@lemmy.world
    102·
    24 days ago

    imagine alienating your child to the point where they feel this way, providing them access to guns, and then deciding to sue google when faced with the undeniable proof that you just couldn’t parent, this is a tru american florida story

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
    102·
    23 days ago

    Ah …

    While I sympathize with the mother for her loss, it is not the chatbot that caused her son’s suicide anymore than it was D&D that caused Patricia Pulling’s son Irving to commit suicide in 1982.

    There’s plenty of actual reasons to hate the modern rendition of AI. Making shit up isn’t the way.