A 76-year-old retiree from New Jersey met a tragic end while trying to meet up with a flirty Kendall Jenner lookalike called 'Big sis Billie' - without realizing she was an AI chatbot. Thongbue Wongbandue packed a bag and made a desperate bid to go to the New York apartment of a woman he had been chatting with online back in March. But the father-of-two never made it home to his wife and children, and the woman he thought he was meeting didn't exist. As he rushed into the city, the retiree fell and hurt his head and neck in the parking lot of a Rutgers University campus in New Jersey. The senior citizen had been struggling cognitively after suffering a stroke in 2017. He had also recently got lost walking around his neighborhood in Piscataway, his family told Reuters. Read more at DailyMail.
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