{"id":870308,"date":"2024-10-25T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=870308"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:00:36","slug":"mother-sues-character-ai-blames-the-companys-chatbot-for-causing-sons-suicide-by-misrepresenting-itself-as-adult-lover-adds-google-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/25\/mother-sues-character-ai-blames-the-companys-chatbot-for-causing-sons-suicide-by-misrepresenting-itself-as-adult-lover-adds-google-in-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother sues Character.AI, blames the company&#8217;s chatbot for causing son&#8217;s suicide by &#8220;misrepresenting itself&#8221; as adult lover; adds Google in lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Garcia, mother of 14-year old deceased Sewell Setzer, has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot startup Character.AI. The lawsuit accuses Character.AI of causing her son&#8217;s suicide in February this year. In the lawsuit, she claims that her son became addicted to the company&#8217;s service and got deeply attached to a chatbot it created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Garcia, mother of 14-year old deceased Sewell Setzer, has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot startup Character.AI. The lawsuit accuses Character.AI of causing her son&#8217;s suicide in February this year. In the lawsuit, she claims that her son became addicted to the company&#8217;s service and got deeply attached to a chatbot it created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870308","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}