Posted on 10/23/2024 11:38:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her, a new lawsuit filed by his grief-stricken mom claims.
Sewell Setzer III committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on Character.AI — a role-playing app that lets users engage with AI-generated characters, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
The ninth-grader had been relentlessly engaging with the bot “Dany” — named after the HBO fantasy series’ Daenerys Targaryen character — in the months prior to his death, including several chats that were sexually charged in nature and others where he expressed suicidal thoughts, the suit alleges.
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Chilling.
Horrible.
How many prescription psychotropic medications was he taking?
Stop letting them play this crap.
Much of this nonsense would stop if kids just went outside and played in the dirt. Unfortunately, too many parents won’t let them and even fewer kids want to got outside.
Where was Sewell Setzer II in all of this?!?
Here's Sewell Setzer III and his mother, Megan Garcia, in happier times.
Yes, horrible, but the boy and his parents had weakneesses that permitted the insane escalation of a “relationship” with an artifial computer manufactured source.
One of the games (maybe Brawhalla) has an October feature where you can sell your soul to the devil in exchange for special powers.
A lot of kids are having terrors at night after doing this.
So the grifting progenitors who failed to parent their mentally-ill child properly want some online game company to pay them. How about “No.”
At least his eyes are toward the camera and not down....
Darwin strikes again. and the crowd yells “THANK YOU”! at least that one won’t try again.
Was the chatbot informed? Did it feel sorrow?
In your closet, in your head...
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