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The Tragic Case of Teen’s Death and Character.AI

From the perspective of friends and family, it looked like Sewell just got mired in his phone. They weren’t aware he “fell for a chatbot.”
Sewell spiraled farther down an AI vortex until he fantasized about "joining" the chatbot in some kind of postmortem union. Read More ›