# @dailymail on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBjjr5ovV0U
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-25T17:31:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Daily Mail (@dailymail) — https://gondola.cc/dailymail

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A devastated mother who claims her 14-year-old son was goaded into killing himself by an AI chatbot is suing Google and a tech company behind the AI. Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old ninth grader in Orlando, Florida, died by suicide in February after a chatbot he had been sending sexual messages to told him to 'please come home.' A lawsuit filed by his mother in Florida claims that the boy spent the last weeks of his life texting an AI character named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character on 'Game of Thrones,' on the role-playing app Character.AI. 

'He had been punished five days before, and I took away his phone. Because of the addictive nature of the way this product works, it encourages children to spend large amounts of time,' Garcia told CBS Mornings. 'For him particularly, the day that he died, he found his phone where I had hidden it and started chatting with this particular bot again.' 

Garcia, who works as a lawyer, blamed Character.AI for her son's death in her lawsuit and accused the founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, of knowing that their product could be dangerous for underage customers. 

'He thought by ending his life here, he would be able to go into a virtual reality or "her world" as he calls it, her reality if he left his reality with his family here,' she said. 'When the gunshot went off, I ran to the bathroom… I held him as my husband tried to get help.'

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