Comment by Russell Coleman

52nd Attorney General of Kentucky; former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky
Our Office is going to hold these companies accountable before we lose one more loved one to this tragedy. AI Unverifiable source (2026)
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AI Unverifiable Source_url is the Kentucky AG press release (kentucky.gov), which returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, so I could not read the page directly. However, web search strongly corroborated the quote: multiple outlets (Kentucky Lantern, WKMS, LegalReader) report AG Russell Coleman's Jan 2026 statement on Kentucky's lawsuit against Character.AI: "Too many children – including in Kentucky – have fallen prey to this manipulative technology. Our Office is going to hold these companies accountable before we lose one more loved one to this tragedy." This matches the quote verbatim. Context (holding an AI company liable for harms to children) and the "for" vote on "AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models" align correctly; year 2026 is correct. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the primary source_url itself blocks fetching; corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20h ago
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