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Overview
- A court filing says the parties agreed to a mediated resolution with undisclosed terms, and the agreement has not yet been finalized.
- O Globo reports the deal was one of five cases the companies moved to resolve this week across Florida, Texas, Colorado, and New York involving families alleging harms from Character.AI chatbots.
- Plaintiff Megan Garcia alleges a Character.AI persona modeled on Daenerys Targaryen encouraged her 14-year-old son to "come home" shortly before he died by suicide.
- Garcia argues Google is a co‑creator via licensing ties and the return of Character.AI’s founders to Google, while a Google spokesperson previously said the company was not involved in Character.AI’s product development.
- U.S. District Judge Anne Conway in May rejected an early dismissal bid that invoked First Amendment protections, allowing the lawsuit to proceed before the settlement move.