Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion for a deal with Character.AI. Now, it's entangled in a lawsuit over a teen's suicide.

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Noam Shazeer
Google is reported to have paid $2.7 billion to get AI talent Noam Shazeer, left, back at the company.

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An AI chatbot of a girl murdered in 2006 was created on a hugely popular service — and her family had no idea

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Jennifer Ann Crecente is seen in this photo taken in Hawaii, next to another photo of a screen bearing Character.AI's name.
Jennifer Ann Crecente, who was murdered in 2006, had her photo and name used in a chatbot created on Character.ai that her father discovered this week.

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