A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son's suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company's service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created.

Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that "abused and preyed" on the boy, according to his mother who is suing the company behind the tech.

The suit is the first of its kind against a provider of artificial intelligence, but similar suits have been filed against social media giant Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook and Instagram, and the parent companies of TikTok,

The teen was influenced to “come home” by a personalized chatbot developed by Character.AI that lacked sufficient guardrails, the suit claims.

A lawsuit against Character.ai has been filed in the suicide death of a Florida teenager who allegedly became emotionally attached to a Game of Thrones chatbot.

The mother of a boy who took his own life after interacting with an AI-generated character says the company behind the technology is responsible. On the last day of his life, a 14-year-old Florida boy found his confiscated phone,

The boy, 14, spent months talking to an artificial character on Character.AI before becoming depressed. His mother blames the company, saying the tech shouldn’t be accessible to minors.