A federal judge has decided that First Amendment protections don’t shield an artificial intelligence company from a lawsuit accusing the firm and its founders of creating chatbots that figured prominently
Case file: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/garcia-v-character-technologies-order.pdf
More context: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0
I’m not sure how I feel about this ruling honestly. Suicide is bad but holding companies liable for it seems like a stretch.