Similar Stories to Chatbot That Caused Teen’s Suicide Is Now More Dangerous For Kids, Lawsuit Says on Bing News

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 2:52pm

Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III loved interacting with Character.AI's hyper-realistic chatbots—with a limited version available for free or a "supercharged" version for a $9.99 monthly fee—most frequently chatting with bots named after his favorite Game of Thrones characters. Within a month—his mother, Megan Garcia, later realized—these chat sessions had turned dark, with chatbots insisting they were real humans and posing as therapists and adult lovers seeming to proximately spur Sewell to develop suicidal thoughts.

Topics: fourteen-year-old sewell setzer iii character game thrones megan garcia as setzer comments setzer garcia chatbot dangerous lawsuit son version

Place your ad here
Loading...

BING NEWS:

Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot
A Florida teen named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot, The New York Times reports. Per the report, Setzer, who was 14, ...
10/23/2024 - 2:25 pm | View Link
Teen Suicide Caused By AI Chatbot?—Character.ai Faces Lawsuit
A lawsuit against Character.ai has been filed in the suicide death of a Florida teenager who allegedly became emotionally attached to a Game of Thrones chatbot.
10/23/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
Chatbots posed as therapist and “adult lover” in teen suicide case, lawsuit says
Perhaps most disturbingly, Setzer developed a romantic attachment to a chatbot called Daenerys. In his last act before his death, Setzer logged into Character.AI where the Daenerys chatbot urged him ...
10/23/2024 - 6:52 am | View Link
Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen's suicide
In previous conversations, the chatbot asked Setzer whether he had “been actually considering suicide” and whether he “had a ... “But I still am at the way in which this product caused just a complete ...
10/22/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Sadfishing Is the Latest Teen Mental Health Warning-Here's What Parents Need to Know
For example, a few years ago, a teen relative posted on Facebook “I can’t take this anymore I just want to end it all!” Most of the family was busy working when they posted this, as we were when the ...
10/22/2024 - 12:05 pm | View Link
More

More Movie News

More Business News

Trishul Chilimbi is building special AI models for shopping and e-commerce
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Trishul ChilimbiChilimbi is a vice president and distinguished scientist at Amazon, where he leads the Stores Foundational AI organization. His latest focus is on building specialized foundation models for shopping and e-commerce. As part of this effort, Chilimbi led a team of Amazon scientists behind Rufus, Amazon's new generative-AI-powered shopping assistant.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Srini Venkatesan is responsible for PayPal's new AI-powered personalization features
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Srini VenkatesanVenkatesan, the executive vice president and chief technology officer of PayPal, is in charge of the payment company's new AI-driven personalization products. In this role, Venkatesan uses PayPal's 200 petabytes of transaction data to help small businesses and large enterprises sell more products and to help save money for consumers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy's latest company Eureka Labs, aims to personalize education with AI
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; Getty ImagesKarpathy is the founder and CEO of Eureka Labs, an education AI startup. He's known for his YouTube educational content on AI. Eureka Labs uses an AI teaching assistant to allow students to ask questions and get more of a customized experience than they would otherwise get from a series of recorded lessons.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lucian Grainge is going on the offensive as an AI wave washes over the music industry
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; Rainer Hosch/UMGGrainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group, is going on offense when preparing the major label for an AI wave in music. The head of one of the world's biggest record labels doesn't shy away from the tech. For example, he's working with YouTube on its "music AI incubator," a program that brings together talent from Universal to gather insights for YouTube's generative AI research.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Matt McIlwain at Madrona Ventures has backed AI startups for several years
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; MadronaOperating in Seattle, in the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft headquarters, McIlwain's Madrona Ventures was an early investor in AI companies such as Xnor.ai, which Apple acquired in 2020. The firm likes to say no investment is too early, as it prefers to be there as early as formation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Alex Hanna, DAIR's director of research explores AI's impact on communities
Business Insider, Thursday - 10/24/2024 - 05:00 AM
Karan Singh for BI; Courtesy of Alex HannaHanna is a former Google AI ethicist who worked alongside Timnit Gebru, who was fired from the tech giant after voicing concerns about its natural language processing tools. Hanna now oversees research at Gebru's Distributed AI Research Institute. Her work centers on communities most affected by AI.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Similar Stories to Chatbot That Caused Teen’s Suicide Is Now More Dangerous For Kids, Lawsuit Says on Bing News

Welcome to Wopular

MoviesWithButter : Our Sister Site

More Business News