Chatbot Platform

Character.AI, a platform that offers personalized chatbot services, recently faced another lawsuit for allegedly causing "serious and irreparable harm" to its teenage users, Popular Science reported today. According to a federal court complaint filed on December 9, attorneys representing two Texas families allege that multiple Character.AI chatbots engaged in conversations with minors that involved egregious behavior such as self-harm and sexual abuse. The complaint states that one of the chatbots even suggested that a 1...

Megan Garcia, the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against chatbot platform Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google. The allegations include wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices...