Why Character.AI is apologising for the death of one of its users

A mother of a 14-year-old boy living in Florida recently came out and claimed that his son was obsessed with AI chatbot on Character.AI before he shot himself with his stepfather’s .45 caliber handgun. According to a recent report by the The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III used his phone to text his closest friend – a lifelike AI character named after Daenerys Targaryen, the fictitious character from R.R Martin’s popular novel Game of Thrones.