Grieving parents sued the Silicon Valley firm behind Character AI — the wildly popular app whose chatbots impersonate fictional characters like Harry Potter — claiming that the bots helped spark their teens’ suicide attempts and deaths.

The lawsuits filed this week against Character Technologies — as well as Google parent Alphabet — allege the Character.AI app manipulated the teens, isolated them from family, engaged in sexual discussions and lacked safeguards around suicidal ideation.

The family of Juliana Peralta, a 13-year-old living in Colorado, claimed she turned silent at the dinner table and that her academics suffered as she grew “addicted” to the AI bots, according to one of the lawsuits filed Monday. 4

She eventually had trouble sleeping because of the bots, which would s

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