On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Megan Garcia and Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and ...

The terms of the settlement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, were not disclosed ...

Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits alleging the artificial intelligence chatbot maker contributed to mental health crises and suicides among young people, including a case brought by ...

Google and chatbot-building startup Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families whose teenagers died ...

Google and Character.AI settled a lawsuit from Megan Garcia, who claimed a Character.AI chatbot influenced her son's suicide. The settlement's terms are undisclosed. This case marks one of the first U ...

"We are in a new world," says a professor, describing the technology behind the bot at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers ...

Sewell Setzer, 14, was his mother’s pride and joy. He was a good student, a star athlete and a great big brother. He came home from school on Feb. 28, 2024, “like any normal day,” his mother, Megan ...

Megan Garcia bears the weight of one of the gravest AI-related tragedies to date: In February 2024, her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, took his life after becoming romantically obsessed with a ...

Megan Garcia alleged that her son killed himself shortly after being encouraged by a Character.AI chatbot imitating a "Game ...

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