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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide
The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations ...
Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide
A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists —was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is ...
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Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?
Halfway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. "How are you? I'm good," Garcia, a mother of three ...
AI relationships have entered the chat
Such bots are growing in popularity and number. ChatGPT, an informational chatbot, has 400 million weekly users, with a ...
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Long Island students design ‘buddy bot’ that offers surprising twist in battle to make social media safer for kids
A group of Long Island ninth graders won a highly competitive contest on making social media less harmful for teens by designing a “buddy bot” AI program to help with digital detoxing.
Teen’s Suicide Turns Mother Against Google, AI Chatbot Startup
Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own ...
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Man sues OpenAI after ChatGPT accuses him of kids' murder
A Norwegian man, Arve Hjalmar Holmen, has lodged a complaint with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority after ChatGPT ...