Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III fell in "love" with a Character.AI chatbot, then killed himself. Now his mom, Megan Garcia, is fighting the popular tech ...

For more on Megan Garcia's fight against Character.AI and new details about her son Sewell, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe.

Sewell Setzer III had professed his love for the chatbot he often interacted with - his mother Megan Garcia says in a civil lawsuit . Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Megan Garcia sued Character.AI in federal court after the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, arguing the platform has "targeted the most vulnerable members of society – our children" ...

Megan Garcia filed the civil lawsuit in a Florida federal court against Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI or C.AI) after her son, Sewell Setzer III, shot himself in the head with his ...

Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, began using Character.AI in April last year, according to the lawsuit, which says that after his final conversation with a chatbot on Feb. 28, he ...

In February, 2024, Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell took his own life. As she tried to make sense of what happened, Megan discovered that Sewell had fallen in love with a chatbot on ...

Orlando mother Megan Garcia is sharing her heartbreak over her son Sewell Setzer's death in February after she claims it encouraged him to take his own life. "He was in his bathroom, we found, I ...

A Florida woman is grieving after she said her 14-year-old son’s love for a chatbot led him to die by suicide. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Orlando mom Megan Garcia alleged that her son carried ...

For more on Megan Garcia's fight against Character.AI and new details about her son Sewell, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe. Character.AI has said that ...