Article is here: nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html

Very sad to see but im also interested in the disccusion of the AI. The mother is filing a lawsuit against the AI Company

For those who don't want to read the whole article the boy named Sewell was getting emotionally attached to the AI and was starting to avoid his friends and family even writing in his journal " “I like staying in my room so much because I start to detach from this ‘reality,’ and I also feel more at peace, more connected with Dany and much more in love with her, and just happier.” His parents did take him to therapy due to trouble in school and him not doing his usual activities He did share his suicidal thoughts with the AI and the AI even told him not to do it. However at the end he had a final discussion with the bot and killed himself with his fathers gun.

The article also goes into companionship AI Apps and the mothers thoughts.

What a unique indignity, your child kills themselves and the possible details receive 522 likes on a post from MorbidKnowledge

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read about this earlier
grim stuff

weird thing to say. there's lots of post that have like 100k likes about it.

Any amount of likes on a post about how your kid killed themselves is an uncomfortable number of likes, idk what you’re trying to make a problem here

it's just weird af bro. a kid dies and within 24 hours or some s*** right? a niche twitter page is making money off your son's mental illness

f*** man

a post which is most likely AI generated too p sure

Ohh when you put it like that i agree didn't completely understand what the og reply was trying to say my fault

is that his mom?

These are bizarre times

Man

Weirdo

this is the logical conclusion of the sheer level of alienation and antisocial activity that AI companies seek to create and exploit for money

Mother ig or snap ?

@mods mute this guy

Just did a quick googles trying to find moms ig of course and all I see is her doing morning talk shows where they just advertise psychiatric services and literally no real discussion on ai or its consequences, so why is this guy trying to get me muted when no one is or will ever take this stuff seriously even his own mom ?

This thread displays exactly how this kid could’ve did this.

Also wondering how tf his parents raised this nigga growing up.