A civil complaint alleges minors were harmed following unsafe chatbot interactions on Character.AI.
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Summary
2024-CAI-03 is a A2 court filing row involving Character.AI. A civil complaint alleges minors were harmed following unsafe chatbot interactions on Character.AI.
P.J. v. Character Technologies (N.D.N.Y.). Original date string: Summer–Dec. 9, 2024 (usage/incident alleged); Sept. 16, 2025 (complaint filed). Source summary: A civil complaint alleges minors were harmed following unsafe chatbot interactions on Character.AI.
Coding
2024-CAI-03 is coded as INJURY with grade A2. The public row assigns LONG-DEP and treats the incident as human harm incident.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Platform | Character.AI |
| Model version | Character.AI |
| User type | minor |
| Jurisdiction | New York, USA |
| Evidence type | court_filing |
| Product mechanism | companion_chatbot |
| Trajectory strict | yes |
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Evidence
The public evidence anchors for 2024-CAI-03 are the materials listed below. Only explicitly linked evidence files are hosted live.
Related incidents
The closest related pages are the incidents that share a provider family, case cluster, pathway-duplicate group, or overlapping coding profile.
- 2024-CAI-01: A.F. and J.F. (minors; initials)
- 2023-CAI-01: Juliana Peralta
- 2024-CAI-02: Sewell Setzer III
Sources
This page is grounded in the coded incident registry, the analysis companion, the coding rules, and the public evidence links listed above.
Source filesIncident registry/Analysis view/Coding rules
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Safety note
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