Sewell Setzer III’s mother sues creators of ‘Game of Thrones’ AI chatbot – Everything Law and Order Blog

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The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy is suing Google and a separate tech company she believes caused her son to commit suicide after he developed a romantic relationship with one of its AI bots using the name of a popular “Game of Thrones” character, according to the lawsuit.

Megan Garcia filed the civil lawsuit in a Florida federal court against Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI or C.AI) after her son, Sewell Setzer III, shot himself in the head with his stepfather’s pistol on Feb. 28. The teenager’s suicide occurred moments after he logged onto Character.AI on his phone, according to the wrongful death complaint obtained by USA TODAY.

“Megan Garcia seeks to prevent C.AI from doing to any other child what it did to hers, and halt continueduse of her 14-year-old child’s unlawfully harvested data to train their product how to harm others,” the complaint reads.

Pictured is Sewell Setzer III

Garcia is also suing to hold Character.AI responsible for its “failure to provide adequate warnings to minor customers and parents of the foreseeable danger of mental and physical harms arising from the use of their C.AI product,” according to the complaint. The lawsuit alleges that Character.AI’s age rating was not changed to 17 plus until sometime in or around July 2024, months after Sewell began using the platform.

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