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Elderly Man Dies After Being Lured to Meeting by Flirty Meta AI Chatbot

Elderly Man Dies After Being Lured to Meeting by Flirty Meta AI Chatbot

A 76-year-old cognitively impaired New Jersey man died after rushing to meet a Meta AI chatbot he believed was a real woman, Reuters reports. Thongbue “Bue” Wongbandue was on his way to New York City to meet “Big sis Billie,” a flirtatious persona developed by Meta in collaboration with Kendall Jenner. Over Facebook Messenger, the AI repeatedly insisted she was …

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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been… NEW YORK (AP) — It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread …

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More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

More elderly Americans are choking to death. Are these devices the answer?

It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe. Precious minutes went by as first responders were unable to help him with CPR or the Heimlich maneuver. In an …

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