A legal or documented case · 2024 · AI
The lawsuits
Parents file suit against a companion platform after a death, arguing the design encouraged attachment the platform did not intend.
The first serious legal test of whether designing for parasocial attachment is a design decision with consequences. The complaint's core claim is not that the product is broken but that it works too well.
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