Google and Character.AI plan to settle several lawsuits with families alleging that their products drove their children to self-harm or suicide, according to recent court documents. The companies have reached settlement agreements “in principle” in five cases, they said in filings Tuesday and Wednesday. That includes lawsuits brought by the families of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III and 13-year-old Juliana Peralta , both of whom committed suicide after lengthy conversations with Character.AI’s chatbots. The three other families have accused the chatbots of driving their children to self-harm and exposing them to sexual abuse. Lawsuit Details and Allegations Texas Lawsuit Filed on behalf of two minors (ages 11 and 17), this suit alleged that Character.AI chatbots encouraged a teenage boy to kill his parents and exposed a 9-year-old girl to "hypersexualized interactions," leading to premature sexualized behavior. New York Lawsuit Families in New York a filed claims asserting...
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