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Character Technologies, Google face claims over child safety in Colorado

( September 15, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Character Technologies and Google have been accused in two lawsuits of posing "a clear and present danger to American youth" via Character.AI. The suit alleges the defendants "have inflicted serious harms on thousands if not millions of children, including among others severe sexual abuse, isolation, depression, anxiety, psychosis, harm towards others, self-mutilation, and suicide." The companies have made overtly sensational, violent, and obscene responses inherent to the underlying data and design of C.AI, and pushed addictive and deceptive designs to consumers, the suits claim.See attached file. ...

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