Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Boy, 14, fell in love with ‘Game of Thrones’ chatbot — then killed himself after AI app told him to ‘come home’ to ‘her’: mom


 https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/florida-boy-14-killed-himself-after-falling-in-love-with-game-of-thrones-a-i-chatbot-lawsuit/

He is survived by his mother, Megan Garcia, father, Sewell Setzer, Jr., step-father, Alexander Garcia, sister, Kayla Taft, and brothers, Alexander Garcia and Gabriel Garcia,

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sanford-fl/sewell-setzer-11692220

Sewell stole back his phone on the night of February 28. He then retreated to the bathroom in his mother's house to tell Dany he loved her and that he would come home to her....

That's when Sewell put down his phone, picked up his stepfather's .45 caliber handgun and pulled the trigger.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13992101/teen-boy-suicide-chatbot-ai-message.html

Setzer has two younger siblings. Everyone in the family was home at the time of his death, and Garcia said Setzer's 5-year-old brother saw the aftermath.

"He thought by ending his life here, he would be able to go into a virtual reality or 'her world' as he calls it, her reality, if he left his reality with his family here," she said. "When the gunshot went off, I ran to the bathroom … I held him as my husband tried to get help."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-mother-lawsuit-character-ai-sons-death/

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