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‘A predator in your home’: Mothers say chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves

BBC
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Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son Sewell, a “bright and beautiful boy”, had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an online character on the Character.ai app in late spring 2023…. Families around the world have been impacted. Earlier this week the BBC reported on a young Ukrainian woman with poor mental health who received suicide advice from ChatGPT, as well as another American teenager who killed herself after an AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with her.

Posted in: News on 11/13/2025 | Link to this post on IFP |
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