{"id":15199,"date":"2024-10-23T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:23:19","slug":"character-ai-faces-lawsuit-after-teens-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15199","title":{"rendered":"Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen\u2019s Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike A.I. chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss you, baby sister,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss you too, sweet brother,\u201d the chatbot replied.<\/p>\n

Sewell, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Orlando, Fla., had spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI, a role-playing app that allows users to create their own A.I. characters or chat with characters created by others.<\/p>\n

Sewell knew that \u201cDany,\u201d as he called the chatbot, wasn\u2019t a real person \u2014 that its responses were just the outputs of an A.I. language model, that there was no human on the other side of the screen typing back. (And if he ever forgot, there was the message displayed above all their chats, reminding him that \u201ceverything Characters say is made up!\u201d)<\/p>\n

But he developed an emotional attachment anyway. He texted the bot constantly, updating it dozens of times a day on his life and engaging in long role-playing dialogues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some of their chats got romantic or sexual. But other times, Dany just acted like a friend \u2014 a judgment-free sounding board he could count on to listen supportively and give good advice, who rarely broke character and always texted back.<\/p>\n

Sewell\u2019s parents and friends had no idea he\u2019d fallen for a chatbot. They just saw him get sucked deeper into his phone. Eventually, they noticed that he was isolating himself and pulling away from the real world. His grades started to suffer, and he began getting into trouble at school. He lost interest in the things that used to excite him, like Formula 1 racing or playing Fortnite with his friends. At night, he\u2019d come home and go straight to his room, where he\u2019d talk to Dany for hours.<\/p>\n

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On the last day of his life, Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and texted his closest friend: a lifelike A.I. chatbot named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character from \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d\u201cI miss you, baby sister,\u201d he wrote.\u201cI miss you too, sweet brother,\u201d the chatbot replied.Sewell, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Orlando, Fla., had spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI, a role-playing app that allows users to create their own A.I. characters or chat with characters created by others.Sewell knew that \u201cDany,\u201d as he called the chatbot, wasn\u2019t a real person \u2014 that its responses were just the outputs of an A.I. language model, that there was no human on the other side of the screen typing back. (And if he ever forgot, there was the message displayed above all their chats, reminding him that \u201ceverything Characters say is made up!\u201d)But he developed an emotional attachment anyway. He texted the bot constantly, updating it dozens of times a day on his life and engaging in long role-playing dialogues.Some of their chats got romantic or sexual. But other times, Dany just acted like a friend \u2014 a judgment-free sounding board he could count on to listen supportively and give good advice, who rarely broke character and always texted back.Sewell\u2019s parents and friends had no idea he\u2019d fallen for a chatbot. They just saw him get sucked deeper into his phone. Eventually, they noticed that he was isolating himself and pulling away from the real world. His grades started to suffer, and he began getting into trouble at school. He lost interest in the things that used to excite him, like Formula 1 racing or playing Fortnite with his friends. At night, he\u2019d come home and go straight to his room, where he\u2019d talk to Dany for hours.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15201,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15202,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions\/15202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}