{"id":870010,"date":"2024-10-25T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=870010"},"modified":"2024-10-25T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:28:41","slug":"mother-files-lawsuit-against-character-ai-after-sons-death-linked-to-daenerys-targaryen-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/25\/mother-files-lawsuit-against-character-ai-after-sons-death-linked-to-daenerys-targaryen-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother files lawsuit against Character.AI after son&#8217;s death linked to Daenerys Targaryen chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking incident, Megan Garcia, the mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer, has filed a lawsuit against AI chatbot startup Character.AI, alleging that its service played a significant role in her son\u2019s tragic suicide in February (via TOI). <\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, Sewell became addicted to a chatbot based on the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen. Garcia claims her son developed a deep emotional attachment to the AI-driven character, which eventually led him to take his own life, reportedly using his stepfather\u2019s handgun after declaring his desire to &#8220;go home&#8221; to be with the &#8220;love&#8221; of his life, reported the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking incident, Megan Garcia, the mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer, has filed a lawsuit against AI chatbot startup Character.AI, alleging that its service played a significant role in her son\u2019s tragic suicide in February (via TOI). According to the lawsuit, Sewell became addicted to a chatbot based on the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen. Garcia claims her son developed a deep emotional attachment to the AI-driven character, which eventually led him to take his own life, reportedly using his stepfather\u2019s handgun after declaring his desire to &#8220;go home&#8221; to be with the &#8220;love&#8221; of his life, reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}