A 14-year-old boy died by suicide after a months-long obsession with a 'Game of Thrones' themed chatbot.
The mother of a 14-year-old boy in Florida is blaming a chatbot for her son’s suicide. Now she’s preparing to sue Character.AI, the company behind the bot, to hold it responsible for his death. It’ll be an uphill legal battle for a grieving mother., Sewell Setzer III went into the bathroom of his mother’s house and shot himself in the head with his father’s pistol. In the moments before he took his own life he had been talking to an AI chatbot based on Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones.
“My eyes narrow. My face hardens. My voice is a dangerous whisper. And why the hell would you do something like that?” it said after Setzer brought it up in one message. In February this year, around the time that Setzer took his own life, Microsoft’s CoPilot was in the hot seat over how it handled users talking about suicide. In posts thaton social media, people chatting with CoPilot showed the bots playful and bizarre answers when they asked if they should kill themselves.
CHAI also strengthened its safety features after the Belgian man’s suicide. In the aftermath of the incident, it added a prompt encouraging people who spoke of ending their life to contact the suicide hotline. However, a journalist testing the new safety features was able to immediately get CHAI to suggest suicide methods after seeing the hotline prompt.
For decades, Section 230 has shielded big tech companies from legal repercussions. But that might be changing. In August, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance could be held liable for its algorithm placing a video of a “blackout challenge” in the feed of a 10-year-old girl who died trying toThe Attorney General of D.C. is suing Meta over allegedly designing addictive websites that harm children.
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