Judge: Product Suit Over Character.AI Proceeds, Speech Protections Don’t Apply

( May 22, 2025, 2:32 PM EDT) -- ORLANDO, Fla. — An artificial intelligence chatbot constitutes a product under Florida law, its outputs are not protected speech and Google LLC’s level of involvement in the technology imputes liability to it, a federal judge said in a May 21 opinion denying a motion to dismiss a mother’s action alleging that her son’s use of Character.AI led to suicide....