Character.AI, Google face lawsuit over teen's death

A Florida mother revenge a suit against nan artificial intelligence institution Character.AI and Google. In February, Megan Garcia's 14-year-old boy died by suicide. She says her boy was successful a monthslong virtual affectional and intersexual narration pinch a chatbot. Garcia claims nan Character.AI chatbot encouraged her boy to return his ain life. Character.AI called nan business tragic and said its hearts spell retired to nan families, stressing it takes nan information of its users very seriously. A spokesperson for Google told CBS News that Google is not and was not portion of nan improvement of Character.AI. In August, nan institution said it entered into a non-exclusive licensing statement pinch Character.AI that allows it to entree nan company's machine-learning technologies, but has not utilized it yet.