BACKGROUND: "His mother is suing Menlo Park-based "Character Technologies, Inc" -- which created the custom chatbot service CharacterBot AI. The lawsuit claims Character Technologies was reckless by offering minors access to lifelike companions without proper safeguards."
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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: His mother is suing Menlo Park-based "Character Technologies, Inc" -- which created the custom chatbot service CharacterBot AI. The lawsuit claims Character Technologies was reckless by offering minors access to lifelike companions without proper safeguards."
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STORY: "Federal judge allows lawsuit that blames Bay Area company's AI chatbot for teen's death," by Reporter Tara Campbell, published by ABC7 News, on May 22, 2025. (Tara Campbell is a national Edward R. Murrow Award winning journalist currently reporting for KGO-ABC7 News Bay Area, where she focuses on lifting the voices of the marginalized and misunderstood."
SUB-HEADING: "The judge also made way for Garcia to move forward in holding Google accountable for its role in helping develop Character AI;
"I actually happened to be on the phone with my client when I saw the decision," said Meetali Jain, executive director of the Tech Justice Law Project. "Shock. Relief. Feeling like we were witnessing a historic moment for this particular sector."
Character Technologies, the company behind Character AI, tried to get the case dismissed but a federal judge on Wednesday rejected the company's arguments that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment.
The lawsuit filed in Florida court claims the AI company was reckless by offering minors access to lifelike companions without proper safeguards."The legal arguments were hard, but that's only because they were novel, that there was very little precedent that guided us," said Jain. "On the First Amendment, you know, there hasn't been a case that looks at whether the outputs of an LLM are protected speech."
"AI is the new frontier in technology, but it's also uncharted territory in our legal system," said Steven Clark, legal analyst. "You'll see more cases like this being reviewed by courts trying to ascertain exactly what protections AI fits into."
The judge also made way for Garcia to move forward in holding Google accountable for its role in helping develop Character AI.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson wrote: "We strongly disagree with this decision. Google and Character AI are entirely separate, and Google did not create, design, or manage Character AI's app or any component part of it."
"This is a cautionary tale both for the corporations involved in producing artificial intelligence," said Clark. "And, for parents whose children are interacting with chatbots.""
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
