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Mom says ‘Game of Thrones’ AI chatbot caused her son’s suicide, files lawsuit - National | Globalnews.ca

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Sewell Setzer became infatuated with a chatbot made in the likeness of the character Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones .

Setzer and the chatbot exchanged messages that were often romantic and sexual in nature.

The lawsuit alleges Setzer was addicted to using the Chatbot.

Character. AI ’s founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas , are also named as defendants.

Character. AI was founded in California in 2019 .

The company reportedly has about 20 million users.

The site offers a wide array of chatbots, many developed by its userbase.

It relies on so-called large language model technology, used by popular services like ChatGPT, to “train” chatbots.