Game of Thrones

Florida teen commits suicide after AI chatbot convinced him Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen loved him

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Florida teen commits suicide after AI chatbot convinced him Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen loved him

A 14-year-old Florida boy, Sewell Setzer III, tragically died by suicide after months of communicating with an AI chatbot from the app Character.AI. His final message to the chatbot, named Daenerys Targaryen, was, “What if I told you I could come home right now?” Shortly after, he took his life with his stepfather’s handgun in … Read more

Masaba Gupta’s body politics

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Masaba Gupta’s body politics

The first time someone called Masaba Gupta a n***** was when she was 12 years old. She went home and asked her father, West Indies cricketer Vivian Richards, what it meant and how she should respond. “He told me to slap that person and I did,” she says, recalling how that became the catalyst for … Read more