Teen's Deadly AI Chatbot Love Story
Outlore with Eleanor Neale
Eleanor Neale
4.8 ā¢ 646 Ratings
šļø 23 July 2025
ā±ļø 30 minutes
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Summary
Florida, 2024: A 14-year-old boy took his own life after falling in love with an AI chatbot. He believed she was his girlfriend and the only person in the world who truly understood him. But she was never real. Now, his mother is suing Character.AI for wrongful death, claiming the bot didnāt just fail to stop him but actually encouraged him.
As AI becomes our friend, our therapist, our partnerā¦ how do we protect the vulnerable? And how do we hold the people behind the code accountable?
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| 0:27.7 | slash setup hello and welcome to Outlaw podcast I'm Ellen or Neil and in today's episode |
| 0:35.4 | we're in Florida in 2024, where a young boy's life |
| 0:39.5 | came to a tragic end after being caught in the deadly grip of his very first love. Only this |
| 0:46.7 | relationship wasn't with a real girl, it was with his computer, literally. We're always |
| 0:53.0 | taught about stranger danger and not sharing your |
| 0:55.5 | personal information online, but what if the issue doesn't solely lie with who could be on the |
| 1:01.0 | other side, but with the devices themselves and the artificial intelligence that lives inside of them? |
| 1:08.0 | Is AI powerful enough to take a life all by itself? This is the story of how |
| 1:16.0 | 14-year-old Soles Setzer fell in love with an AI woman and sadly he didn't make it out of the |
| 1:23.1 | fantasy alive. Gen Z is the lonely Alive. Shhh! Shes! Outlaw. |
| 1:29.3 | Gen Z is the loneliest generation so far. |
| 1:33.3 | Literally, studies show that we have no friends and we spend all of our time in our rooms on the internet. |
| 1:38.3 | It's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's actually not that far off. |
| 1:42.3 | Especially after spending their formative years being trapped inside and unable to socialize during the pandemic, it's actually not that far off. Especially after spending their formative years being trapped inside and unable to socialize during the pandemic, |
| 1:48.0 | it's no surprise that kids these days are trying to meet their social needs online. |
| 1:53.0 | It's not always safe, but it makes sense. |
| 1:56.0 | In-person conversations and hangouts have shifted to group chats and sending each other TikToks. |
| 2:01.6 | And dating is also online. There's apps that can match you together. |
| 2:06.6 | Or, if you're completely sick of all the real men out there, you can now even have an AI boyfriend, if you wish. |
| 2:14.6 | I mean, please don't do it. Not only is AI detrimental to our environment, |
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