The family of an elderly man who died as he tried to meet an ‘incredibly flirty’ chatbot named Big sis Billie has spoken of how he believed the AI persona was real. Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, fatally injured his head and neck in a fall while rushing in the dark to meet what he thought was a real woman.

Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

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,