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Character.AI, Google fail to escape US free-speech case involving teen suicide

By Amy Miller ( May 21, 2025, 23:53 GMT | Insight) -- Character Technologies, its co-founders and Google will have to face a lawsuit holding them responsible for a teen’s suicide after US District Judge Anne C. Conway said she’s not convinced conversations with generative AI chatbots are protected speech. The companies must convince her that Character.AI “output” is protected, Conway said, and so far, they “fail to articulate why words strung together by an LLM are speech."Character Technologies, its co-founders and Google will have to face a lawsuit holding them responsible for a teen’s suicide after a US judge in Florida said today said she’s not convinced conversations with generative AI chatbots are protected speech....

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