#sewellsetzer
Seeing that one character.Ai ad where a dude is calling an ai on his phone, saying “it’s like talking to a real person” hits WAY differently now :(
#sewellsetzer
October 24, 2024 at 7:34 PM
The mother of a teenager who killed himself after becoming obsessed with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot now accuses its maker of complicity in his death.

#SewellSetzer #CharacterAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #chatbot #GenAI #technology #tech #suicide
Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker
Megan Garcia said Sewell, 14, used Character.ai obsessively before his death and alleges negligence and wrongful death
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October 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Cases like #AdamRaine and #SewellSetzer are the sharpest edge of a #mentalhealth crisis-in-the-making from #AIchatbots. We need to shift the incentives, change the design, and build a more humane #AI for all. www.humanetech.com/podcast/how-... via @humanetech.bsky.social #chatgpt #openai #samaltman
How OpenAI's ChatGPT Guided a Teen to His Death
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September 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM