In an interview with NBC News, Megan Garcia said the company should “not have released chatbots to children in the first ...
Setzer felt like he'd fallen in love with Daenerys, and many of their interactions were sexually explicit. The chatbot ...
Senators introduce GUARD Act to protect minors from AI chatbots after parents testify about teen suicides, violence allegedly ...
Local entrepreneur and father Greg Aguirre lauds the proposed federal App Store Accountability Act but writes that Florida ...
Florida mother Megan Garcia says after her son Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in their home, she found out he’d been communicating with several AI chatbots. He was 14. “This chatbot encouraged ...
Startup Character.AI announced Wednesday it would eliminate chat capabilities for users under 18, a policy shift that follows ...
“What if I could come home to you right now?” “Please do, my sweet king.” Those were the last messages exchanged by 14-year-old Sewell Setzer and the chatbot he developed a romantic relationship with ...
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