The mother of a 14-year-old who died of suicide is blaming an A.I. chatbot for her son’s death. Last week, Megan L. Garcia filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, calling its chatbot feature ...

Mother says son killed himself because of Daenerys Targaryen AI chatbot in new lawsuit. 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that "abused and preyed" on the boy ...

A 14-year-old teenager became obsessed with a life-like chatbot of Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones on Character.AI. He reportedly got attracted to the bot and had long chats with her to ...

Lawsuit: Sewell Setzer III sexually abused by 'Daenerys Targaryen' AI chatbot. Throughout Sewell's time on Character.AI, he would often speak to AI bots named after "Game of Thrones" and "House of ...

Court lets mother sue Google, Character.ai over Daenerys Targaryen chatbot's role in son's death Google said it is "entirely separate" from Character.ai By Rob Thubron May 22, 2025, 7:46 11 comments ...

Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old boy in Orlando, Fla., was smitten with a fantasy woman. The object of his attachment was Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot seductress named for a character in Game of ...

Screenshots reveal the teen engaging in lifelike text message conversations with the chatbot “Dany,” named after the Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen, in the months leading up to ...

You don't hurt yourself either, okay?" read a message from Sewell, posting as Aegon, to the Daenerys Targaryen chatbot, according to screenshots in the lawsuit. "I promise I won't, my love.

A federal judge’s ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies is off base in finding that the output produced by GenAI chatbots may not constitute “speech” within the meaning of the First Amendment.

During his months-long interactions with the chatbot, nicknamed "Daenerys Targaryen" after the "Game of Thrones" character, the bot not only engaged in prohibited sexual conversation with the boy, ...

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III knew that Daenerys Targaryen, a chatbot based on a character of Game of Thrones, was not a real person but he developed an emotional attachment and used to text the ...