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14 years boy shot himself after falling in love with AI chatbot

14 years old Florida boy- Sewell Setzer

Florida: A teenage boy killed himself after falling in love with an AI chatbot who told him to “come home to me”. This was the last message Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old Florida boy wrote to his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen. She is lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from the fictional show Game of Thrones.

Sewell Setzer, shot himself with his stepfather’s gun after spending months talking to a computer programme named after the Games of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen, whom he called “Dany”.

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