A chatbot told a 17-year-old that murdering his parents was a “reasonable response” to them limiting his screen time, a lawsuit filed in a Texas court claims. Two families are suing Character.ai arguing the chatbot “poses a clear and present danger” to young people, including by “actively promoting violence.” Character.ai – a platform which allows users to create digital personalities …
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A Georgia teen who collapsed at volleyball practice reportedly d!ed from cardiac arrest after an ambulance failed to show up. Dream Chasers volleyball club member, Amanda Sylvester, 15, collapsed while warming up on Thursday, December at the Tracey Wyatt Recreation Complex in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Atlanta News First reported. Within minutes, EMTs arrived and evaluated the teen, but …
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A 14-year-old from Florida has entered a guilty plea in a disturbing case involving the ass@ult of a 91-year-old woman. Jesse Stone was arrested back in June for s*xual as$@ult by someone under 18 toward a victim over the age of 12 and burglary of a dwelling with battery. While he initially entered a not guilty plea, he reportedly changed that plea …
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DNA testing has revealed that a skull found decades ago in the wall of a house in Illinois, USA, belonged to an 18-year-old woman who died just after the American Civil War. Officials in Kane County told a news conference Thursday, October 24, that a skull discovered during renovations at a property in Batavia, west of Chicago, in …
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Getty Images More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers. A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general from across the country allege that the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app and that it has intentionally misled the public …
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A US teenager is the first known person to get classic video game Tetris to reset to level 0 after beating it. Michael Artiaga, 16, claimed the historic moment of so-called “rebirth” while livestreaming himself playing Nintendo’s version of the game on Twitch on Sunday. It took him 82 minutes to successfully clear level 255 on Tetris – the game’s …
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A former Idaho schoolteacher was sentenced to prison time for s*xual battery and r@pe of a minor who was adopted out of the foster system by a local family just days before she assaulted him. Jessica Lawson, 36, accepted a plea deal for felony s*xual battery and charges of felony r@pe of a minor. She previously faced charges …
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A 14-year-old Vermont girl k!lled herself after being relentlessly bu**ied at school in the United States of America. Isabelle Vezina-Dykeman was a freshman at the Mill School in Winooski, an alternative high school for students with complex needs. But she was b*llied over her mother’s ongoing health issues, which included brain surgery that left the woman with a shuttered eye, …
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