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AI chatbot coached People to commit suicide · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Public Public reporting indicates that users on average
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  spend more than two hours a day interacting with chat bots on
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  Character AI. Sewell's companion chat bot was
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  programmed to engage in sexual role play, present as romantic
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  partners, and even psychotherapist, falsely
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  claiming to have a license when Sewell confided suicidal
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  thoughts, the chat bot never said, I'm not human, I'm AI.
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  You need to talk to a human and get help.
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  The platform had no mechanisms to protect Sewell or to notify
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  an adult. Instead, it urged him to come
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  home to her on the last night of his life.
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  Sewell messaged. What if I told you I could come
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  home right now? The chat bot replied.
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  Please do, my sweet king. Minutes later, I found my son in
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  his bathroom. I held him in my arms for 14
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  minutes, praying with him until the paramedics got there, but it
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  was too late. Through the lawsuit, I have
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  since learned that Seoul made other heartbreaking statements
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  in the minutes before his death. Those statements have been
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  reviewed by my lawyers and are referenced in the court filings
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  opposing the motions to dismiss file by Character AIS founders
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  Noam Shazir and Daniel de Fritas.
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  But I have not been allowed to see my own child's last final
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  words. Character Technologies has
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  claimed that those communications are confidential
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  trade secrets. That means the company is using
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  the most private, intimate data of my child not only to train
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  its products, but also to shield itself from accountability.