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'Sickening' Molly Russell chatbots found on Character.ai
The foundation set up in her memory said it would cause "further heartache to everyone who knew and loved Molly."
Molly Russell took her life at the age of 14 after viewing suicide material online while Brianna Ghey, 16, was murdered by two teenagers in 2023. Character.ai, which was founded by former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, has terms of service which ban using the platform to "impersonate any person or entity". Character.ai is currently the subject of a lawsuit brought by Megan Garcia, a woman from Florida whose 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, took his own life after becoming obsessed with an AI avatar inspired by a Game of Thrones character.
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