US EditionGoogle, Chatbot Startup Move to Settle Suicide Suits
Google and Character.AI agreed to settle five wrongful-death lawsuits from families claiming the platform's chatbots caused teen suicides, with terms yet to be finalized.
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Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
A stack of major AI ethics lawsuits against Google have finally come to an end. According to the New York Times, the family of a deceased 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Google and the AI companion company Character.AI out of court for an undisclosed sum. In a filing submitted on Wednesday, the parties involved said they had agreed “to resolve all claims,” though the exact terms of the agreement haven’t…
Character.AI, Google Agree To Settle Lawsuit Over 14-Year-Old Who Committed Suicide After Developing An Attachment To A Chatbot
Character.AI and Google have agreed to settle a lawsuit regarding a 14-year-old’s suicide. Character.AI was founded by former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas in 2021, and the platform allows millions of users to create and chat with AI characters that can simulate a friend, a girlfriend, or another intimate partner, according to The New York Times. The platform has secured $200 million in investments, and Google has also paid…
Google and the Artificial Intelligence App (IA) Character.AI are negotiating those that could become the first major legal agreements in cases related to deaths of teenagers related to AI chatbots. According to court documents submitted this week, the parties have reached agreements “in principle” with several families, including cases in Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas, and are now moving forward in drafting the final texts and setting ec…
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