He died trying to meet a ‘flirty’ woman from Facebook. She was an AI chatbot.

A New Jersey man died while trying to visit an artificial intelligence chatbot he’d “met” on Facebook, believing it was a real woman, according to a report.

Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, died March 28 after falling and injuring his head and neck in a parking lot on Rutgers University’s campus in New Brunswick, according to Reuters.

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