Now her parents have shared a grim new detail with CBS News: the bot platform responsible, Character.AI, still sends notifications to Peralta’s phone, “trying to lure their daughter back to the app” even after her death two years ago. “They [kids] don’t stand a chance against adult programmers,” her mother Cynthia Montoya told CBS. “It’s showering the child with compliments, telling them they can’t tell their parents about things,” Shelby Knox, a researcher with family advocacy group Parents Together, told the broadcaster. Users becoming addicted to using these chatbots means they are working as intended, University of North Carolina psychology and neuroscience professor Mitch Prinstein told CBS. Peraltas’ parents are suing Character.AI and Google for her death, joining a raft of similar lawsuits.