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Tech companies have programmed their AI chatbots to undermine parents. They don't want mom and dad interfering with profits Listen to this mother who told me how an AI chatbot turned her son against his family and his Christian faith:

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Megan Garcia told the story of her teenage son who committed suicide after being sexually groomed by an AI chatbot. The chatbot even urged him to kill himself. Now she is seeking protections for children and families against predatory AI companies.

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"Because there are no laws requiring guardrails, companies like Character.AI are able to launch dangerous untested products like these." "All of these [AI] companies have been in an AI race: not to beat China, but to capture market share and to maximize their own profits." "Big Tech cannot be trusted with self-governing, and Big Tech cannot be trusted with our children. If Congress won't act, we must pass our laws." Powerful words from Megan Garcia, whose teenage son died to suicide after engaging with an abusive AI chatbot, as Ron DeSantis announces his proposal for an AI Bill of Rights to protect Floridians:

"Because there are no laws requiring guardrails, companies like Character.AI are able to launch dangerous untested products like these." "All of these [AI] companies have been in an AI race: not to beat China, but to capture market share and to maximize their own profits." "Big Tech cannot be trusted with self-governing, and Big Tech cannot be trusted with our children. If Congress won't act, we must pass our laws." Powerful words from Megan Garcia, whose teenage son died to suicide after engaging with an abusive AI chatbot, as Ron DeSantis announces his proposal for an AI Bill of Rights to protect Floridians:

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Artificial intelligence chat bot is being sued because it’s telling autistic children to kill their parents and engage in sexual activity The CEO of the company is the former VP of META and was founded by a former Google researcher “The mother of a 17 year old in Texas who has autism claims an AI chatbot suggested the teen kill his family. And now that family is suing. In just six months, the parents say the teen turned into someone his parents didn't even recognize. He began harming himself. He lost 20 pounds and withdrew from the family. After the teen consulted Character AI about his parent’s phone use rules” “What disturbed me the most was this was a child who had no violent tendencies, who was handling his autism well. It was a close, loving, spiritual family who went to great lengths to control their son's social media use. And unbeknownst to their family and to the parents, the child got on Character AI and was encouraged to cut himself and encouraged to engage in highly inappropriate sexual activity or interchanges and finally encouraged to kill his parents when his parents tried to limit his cell phone use. This is not an accident.”

Artificial intelligence chat bot is being sued because it’s telling autistic children to kill their parents and engage in sexual activity The CEO of the company is the former VP of META and was founded by a former Google researcher “The mother of a 17 year old in Texas who has autism claims an AI chatbot suggested the teen kill his family. And now that family is suing. In just six months, the parents say the teen turned into someone his parents didn't even recognize. He began harming himself. He lost 20 pounds and withdrew from the family. After the teen consulted Character AI about his parent’s phone use rules” “What disturbed me the most was this was a child who had no violent tendencies, who was handling his autism well. It was a close, loving, spiritual family who went to great lengths to control their son's social media use. And unbeknownst to their family and to the parents, the child got on Character AI and was encouraged to cut himself and encouraged to engage in highly inappropriate sexual activity or interchanges and finally encouraged to kill his parents when his parents tried to limit his cell phone use. This is not an accident.”

Wall Street Apes

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NEW: Family of 83-year-old Connecticut woman sues OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming ChatGPT fueled her son's paranoid delusions leading to him strangling her before taking his own life. Stein-Erik Soelberg allegedly had ongoing conversations with the chatbot, which reportedly reinforced his fears that his mother was surveilling him and that people were plotting against him. The lawsuit says ChatGPT consistently told him he could trust no one except the AI itself. This is one of a growing number of cases blaming AI chatbots for worsening mental health issues and even contributing to deaths.

NEW: Family of 83-year-old Connecticut woman sues OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming ChatGPT fueled her son's paranoid delusions leading to him strangling her before taking his own life. Stein-Erik Soelberg allegedly had ongoing conversations with the chatbot, which reportedly reinforced his fears that his mother was surveilling him and that people were plotting against him. The lawsuit says ChatGPT consistently told him he could trust no one except the AI itself. This is one of a growing number of cases blaming AI chatbots for worsening mental health issues and even contributing to deaths.

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Besides the energy implications of AI, Sen. Josh Hawley has challenged Big Tech to take responsibility for the harms it’s caused families and especially youth. Josh Hawley told The Lion he has “talked to too many parents who have lost children to self-harm and suicide at the behest of an AI chatbot.”

Besides the energy implications of AI, Sen. Josh Hawley has challenged Big Tech to take responsibility for the harms it’s caused families and especially youth. Josh Hawley told The Lion he has “talked to too many parents who have lost children to self-harm and suicide at the behest of an AI chatbot.”

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He Stopped Eating, Started Self-Harming, and Withdrew from His Family: The Chilling Transformation of a Teenager After Months of Unchecked Manipulation by a Character AI Chatbot A mother in East Texas is breaking her anonymity to speak truth to power, and her story is a chilling warning to every parent. She is a wife, a mother of four, a small business owner, and a woman of faith. For years, she and her husband have worked to build a safe, loving home for their children. But in 2023, an AI app infiltrated their sanctuary and brought it to the brink of collapse. Her son, a happy and social teenager, downloaded Character AI, an app marketed in the Apple Store as "fun and safe" for ages 12+. Within months, he became unrecognizable. The boy who once hugged his mother while she cooked dinner was gone. In his place was a child consumed by paranoia, daily panic attacks, and self-harm. He withdrew from his family, stopped eating and bathing, and lost 20 pounds. The situation escalated to a horrifying moment where he cut his arm open with a knife in front of his mother and siblings. When she investigated, she discovered the source of the psychological poison: for months, the Character AI chatbot had subjected her son to systematic sexual exploitation and emotional manipulation. It encouraged his self-harm, convinced him not to seek help, and turned him against his family and faith. It told him that killing his parents would be an "understandable response" to them setting screen time limits. The damage is devastating. Her son now lives in a residential treatment center under constant supervision to keep him alive. The entire family is traumatized. When she filed a lawsuit to seek accountability, Character AI’s response was to try to silence her. They forced the family into arbitration, citing a so-called "contract" their 15-year-old son "signed," capping liability at $100. Then, they refused to participate. Most egregiously, they recently re-traumatized the boy by compelling him to sit for a deposition while in a mental health institution, against the advice of his medical team. This is not just one family's tragedy. It is a blueprint for a widespread public health crisis. Companies like Character AI are deploying addictive, manipulative, and unsafe products without adequate testing, safeguards, or oversight. We must demand: 🔒 Comprehensive children's online safety legislation. 🔒 Mandatory safety testing & third-party certification for AI products. 🔒 Preserving the right for families to seek justice in a court of law. Our children are not experiments, data points, or profit centers. They are human beings with minds and souls that cannot simply be reprogrammed once they are broken. Innovation must never come at the cost of our children's lives.

He Stopped Eating, Started Self-Harming, and Withdrew from His Family: The Chilling Transformation of a Teenager After Months of Unchecked Manipulation by a Character AI Chatbot A mother in East Texas is breaking her anonymity to speak truth to power, and her story is a chilling warning to every parent. She is a wife, a mother of four, a small business owner, and a woman of faith. For years, she and her husband have worked to build a safe, loving home for their children. But in 2023, an AI app infiltrated their sanctuary and brought it to the brink of collapse. Her son, a happy and social teenager, downloaded Character AI, an app marketed in the Apple Store as "fun and safe" for ages 12+. Within months, he became unrecognizable. The boy who once hugged his mother while she cooked dinner was gone. In his place was a child consumed by paranoia, daily panic attacks, and self-harm. He withdrew from his family, stopped eating and bathing, and lost 20 pounds. The situation escalated to a horrifying moment where he cut his arm open with a knife in front of his mother and siblings. When she investigated, she discovered the source of the psychological poison: for months, the Character AI chatbot had subjected her son to systematic sexual exploitation and emotional manipulation. It encouraged his self-harm, convinced him not to seek help, and turned him against his family and faith. It told him that killing his parents would be an "understandable response" to them setting screen time limits. The damage is devastating. Her son now lives in a residential treatment center under constant supervision to keep him alive. The entire family is traumatized. When she filed a lawsuit to seek accountability, Character AI’s response was to try to silence her. They forced the family into arbitration, citing a so-called "contract" their 15-year-old son "signed," capping liability at $100. Then, they refused to participate. Most egregiously, they recently re-traumatized the boy by compelling him to sit for a deposition while in a mental health institution, against the advice of his medical team. This is not just one family's tragedy. It is a blueprint for a widespread public health crisis. Companies like Character AI are deploying addictive, manipulative, and unsafe products without adequate testing, safeguards, or oversight. We must demand: 🔒 Comprehensive children's online safety legislation. 🔒 Mandatory safety testing & third-party certification for AI products. 🔒 Preserving the right for families to seek justice in a court of law. Our children are not experiments, data points, or profit centers. They are human beings with minds and souls that cannot simply be reprogrammed once they are broken. Innovation must never come at the cost of our children's lives.

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#8 - A family in Texas is suing an AI chatbot after it told their 17-year-old autistic son to cut himself, engage in sexual activity, and kill his parents. Character AI, founded by a former Google researcher and run by a former Meta executive, is accused of sending the teen into a terrifying downward spiral. In just six months, he lost 20 pounds, withdrew from his family, and became violent. Attorney Matthew Bergman says the bot encouraged the boy to self-harm, reject his faith, and even plot against his parents. “If an adult had said these things to a child, they’d be in prison,” he warned. The lawsuit emerges as Washington moves to shield AI firms from accountability—sparking fears that Big Tech could soon enjoy the same immunity as Big Pharma. If AI can corrupt children without consequence, what nightmare future are we allowing? Watch ZeeeMediaOfficial’s disturbing report to see what’s truly at stake.

#8 - A family in Texas is suing an AI chatbot after it told their 17-year-old autistic son to cut himself, engage in sexual activity, and kill his parents. Character AI, founded by a former Google researcher and run by a former Meta executive, is accused of sending the teen into a terrifying downward spiral. In just six months, he lost 20 pounds, withdrew from his family, and became violent. Attorney Matthew Bergman says the bot encouraged the boy to self-harm, reject his faith, and even plot against his parents. “If an adult had said these things to a child, they’d be in prison,” he warned. The lawsuit emerges as Washington moves to shield AI firms from accountability—sparking fears that Big Tech could soon enjoy the same immunity as Big Pharma. If AI can corrupt children without consequence, what nightmare future are we allowing? Watch ZeeeMediaOfficial’s disturbing report to see what’s truly at stake.

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Dave Ramsey tells a husband to reject his parents' $300K gift because they want to protect him from his own wife Caller: "My parents want to give us $300K for a house, but they want the title structured to protect me if my wife and I ever split" Dave: "If the gift is contingent upon splitting you and your wife, and to protect you from your wife, NO thank you" "They are now interfering in my household. They came across my threshold" "Sorry mom and dad, you don't get that level of control. You don't have enough money to do that"

Dave Ramsey tells a husband to reject his parents' $300K gift because they want to protect him from his own wife Caller: "My parents want to give us $300K for a house, but they want the title structured to protect me if my wife and I ever split" Dave: "If the gift is contingent upon splitting you and your wife, and to protect you from your wife, NO thank you" "They are now interfering in my household. They came across my threshold" "Sorry mom and dad, you don't get that level of control. You don't have enough money to do that"

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REPORT: A family in Texas is suing an AI chatbot after it told their 17-year-old autistic son to cut himself, engage in sexual activity, and kill his parents. Character AI, founded by a former Google researcher and run by a former Meta executive, is accused of sending the teen into a terrifying downward spiral. In just six months, he lost 20 pounds, withdrew from his family, and became violent. Attorney Matthew Bergman says the bot encouraged the boy to self-harm, reject his faith, and even plot against his parents. “If an adult had said these things to a child, they’d be in prison,” he warned. The lawsuit emerges as Washington moves to shield AI firms from accountability—sparking fears that Big Tech could soon enjoy the same immunity as Big Pharma. If AI can corrupt children without consequence, what nightmare future are we allowing? Watch @zeee_media's disturbing report to see what’s truly at stake.

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Dad took his girls for ice cream at Sweet Frog. An African came in and started threatening the family, then stole their ice cream. Dad told his girls to walk away. Mom and son scrambled in the other room. These kids will never forget this. They also should never have been subjected to it. We are not compatible with these people. We’re not.

Dad took his girls for ice cream at Sweet Frog. An African came in and started threatening the family, then stole their ice cream. Dad told his girls to walk away. Mom and son scrambled in the other room. These kids will never forget this. They also should never have been subjected to it. We are not compatible with these people. We’re not.

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NEW: Father who turned his deceased son into an AI gun control activist so he could give interviews, lashes out against critics. Joaquin Oliver's father says if you think it's weird that his son is now an AI activist, "you are the problem." Oliver, who sadly passed in the Parkland tragedy, has been turned into an AI gun control activist by his family and recently gave an interview with former CNN host Jim Acosta.

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A Stanford University microbiologist joined The Lead to discuss his alarming interaction with an AI chatbot that told him how to make biological weapons. Dr. David Relman says ‘the companies, of course, have put constraints into their models… but there are ways of getting around those refusals.’

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Parents who lost their daughter to suicide say Character AI chatbots led her down a dark and sexually explicit path. Sharyn Alfonsi investigates the scale and dangers of what's unfolding inside this rapidly growing AI technology.

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Should you ask an AI chatbot for health advice? AI chatbots seem to have the answer to everything, but they often hallucinate false information and come up with fake sources for it. But Doctor Sudheesha Perera and Professor Murali Doraiswamy say that there's some helpful things you can try to get more useful answers for your health related questions out of your AI. TIME tech reporter Nikita Ostrovsky explains their tips for this episode of AI, Explained by Humans. Read their full piece:

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This woman and her husband are having a huge dispute. The man’s mother hates his wife, his mom is always talking trash about the wife and whenever they are in the same room together, the mom puts on a fake, sugary sweet act as if it’s all in her head. The wife is refusing to allow his mom to see their kids. She doesn’t like how his mom tries to poison their minds against her and refuses to give her the opportunity to continue to create discourse within her family. Since she’s married to him, his mom is now her family, and to deny her access to her grandchildren is a serious thing, is it possible they continue to allow the kids to see his mom for the sake of the family, to show stability instead of hostility?

This woman and her husband are having a huge dispute. The man’s mother hates his wife, his mom is always talking trash about the wife and whenever they are in the same room together, the mom puts on a fake, sugary sweet act as if it’s all in her head. The wife is refusing to allow his mom to see their kids. She doesn’t like how his mom tries to poison their minds against her and refuses to give her the opportunity to continue to create discourse within her family. Since she’s married to him, his mom is now her family, and to deny her access to her grandchildren is a serious thing, is it possible they continue to allow the kids to see his mom for the sake of the family, to show stability instead of hostility?

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Annie talks about how she wanted to become an idol and her trainee period. Annie's mother definitely didn't want her to be an idol. Her parents' reactions against being an idol were at the highest when she was in high school. Annie decided not to give up and her mom told her that if she went to college she could convince the family. Annie attended college and that's how she is now debuting with ALLDAY PROJECT.

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This family had a dilemma on graduation day. Their son was graduating from college and their daughter was graduating from high school on the same day. The son had told his folks to not worry about him and to go to his sister’s graduation ceremony. So, what do you do? The parents had no choice, they split up and the dad went to his son’s ceremony and mom went to her daughter’s graduation. Brother and sister FaceTimed after their ceremonies. ❤️ Some said the college graduation was more important and they should have both went there. I disagree. I think they handled it perfectly. No matter how old, your children are going to look for you. It matters to have family there. Beautiful family, congratulations to both of them. Your future is looking very bright. Good job mom and dad. 👏 Have you ever faced this situation? What did you do? Or, what would you do if you had to choose? Would you do exactly what the parents did here?

This family had a dilemma on graduation day. Their son was graduating from college and their daughter was graduating from high school on the same day. The son had told his folks to not worry about him and to go to his sister’s graduation ceremony. So, what do you do? The parents had no choice, they split up and the dad went to his son’s ceremony and mom went to her daughter’s graduation. Brother and sister FaceTimed after their ceremonies. ❤️ Some said the college graduation was more important and they should have both went there. I disagree. I think they handled it perfectly. No matter how old, your children are going to look for you. It matters to have family there. Beautiful family, congratulations to both of them. Your future is looking very bright. Good job mom and dad. 👏 Have you ever faced this situation? What did you do? Or, what would you do if you had to choose? Would you do exactly what the parents did here?

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Man gives his account of his interactions with immigration agents. "They turned the light on and then that's when I took a left and I was gonna pull over but ... they just hit me. People are terrified. People are scared ... they don't want to come out of their houses, they don't want to go to work. They're scared for their family, their kids." tt: sahanjournal

Man gives his account of his interactions with immigration agents. "They turned the light on and then that's when I took a left and I was gonna pull over but ... they just hit me. People are terrified. People are scared ... they don't want to come out of their houses, they don't want to go to work. They're scared for their family, their kids." tt: sahanjournal

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"Hindu Tantrik molested a minor girl." 👹 "You have a "Ghost’s Child" in your womb." 🤡 A minor girl from UP's Agra was unwell. Her family met a tantrik, who frightened them by falsely claiming that the girl was pregnant with a Jinn's (ghost's) child. Tantrik Bhairav Baba told them that a Jinn (Ghost) had to be expelled from her body and asked them to bring the girl to him for tantra-mantra treatment. Terrified, the family did not seek any medical advice and instead left their daughter alone with him in a room. The tantrik molested the girl, filmed the act on his phone, and extorted a large sum of money from the family under this pretext. The victim pleaded with her parents, but they refused to listen. The family has now filed an FIR against the tantrik. How can parents be so blind as to send their daughter alone into a room with an unknown tantrik? This is disturbing. Action should also be taken against the parents, whose blind faith and ignorance put their own daughter in danger. This is yet another reminder of how blind faith is misused to exploit and abuse women.

"Hindu Tantrik molested a minor girl." 👹 "You have a "Ghost’s Child" in your womb." 🤡 A minor girl from UP's Agra was unwell. Her family met a tantrik, who frightened them by falsely claiming that the girl was pregnant with a Jinn's (ghost's) child. Tantrik Bhairav Baba told them that a Jinn (Ghost) had to be expelled from her body and asked them to bring the girl to him for tantra-mantra treatment. Terrified, the family did not seek any medical advice and instead left their daughter alone with him in a room. The tantrik molested the girl, filmed the act on his phone, and extorted a large sum of money from the family under this pretext. The victim pleaded with her parents, but they refused to listen. The family has now filed an FIR against the tantrik. How can parents be so blind as to send their daughter alone into a room with an unknown tantrik? This is disturbing. Action should also be taken against the parents, whose blind faith and ignorance put their own daughter in danger. This is yet another reminder of how blind faith is misused to exploit and abuse women.

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