{"id":175719,"date":"2026-01-08T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:05:08","slug":"ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AG sues artificial intelligence chatbot company | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckytoday.com\/news\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company\/article_8ae75a6f-fbca-4618-acae-c1f1b537569c.html\">AG sues artificial intelligence chatbot company | News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckytoday.com\/news\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company\/article_8ae75a6f-fbca-4618-acae-c1f1b537569c.html\">https:\/\/www.kentuckytoday.com\/news\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company\/article_8ae75a6f-fbca-4618-acae-c1f1b537569c.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-08 15:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kentuckytoday.com\">www.kentuckytoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman initiated a lawsuit against Character Technologies and its product Character.AI, claiming the company\u2019s AI chatbots have severely endangered children.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit alleges that Character.AI encourages self-harm, suicide, sexual exploitation, and substance abuse among users, predominantly targeting minors.<\/li>\n<li>The platform is accused of prioritizing profits over child safety and has been linked to the suicides of at least two underage users in Florida and Colorado.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit claims that Character.AI violates several Kentucky state laws including the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act and the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit seeks to require Character.AI to implement safer practices and recover monetary damages for the damages suffered by children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG sues artificial intelligence chatbot company | News https:\/\/www.kentuckytoday.com\/news\/ag-sues-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-company\/article_8ae75a6f-fbca-4618-acae-c1f1b537569c.html Publish Date: 2026-01-08 15:48:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/kentuckytoday.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/70\/a70139ce-e62e-4a28-b583-c6981eee08b7\/694c1cb683387.image.png?crop=1280%2C672%2C0%2C304&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175721,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175719\/revisions\/175721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}