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Deaths Tied to AI Chatbots Show The Danger of These Artificial Voices


Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on the Character.AI website.

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