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In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, October 22, in Orlando, Florida federal court, Megan Garcia said Character.AI targeted her son, Sewell Setzer, with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic experiences.” “We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of one of our users and want to express our deepest condolences to the family,” Character.AI said in a statement.
Garcia said that Google had contributed to the development of Character.AI’s technology so extensively it could be considered a “co-creator.”Character.AI allows users to create characters on its platform that respond to online chats in a way meant to imitate real people. It relies on so-called large language model technology, also used by services like ChatGPT, which “trains” chatbots on large volumes of text.According to Garcia’s lawsuit, Sewell began using Character.