India, June 7 -- The mother of Auburn University student James 'Weston' Higginbotham, 20, claimed that she and her son had an argument over her use of ChatGPT on their vacation before he vanished. Search-and-rescue volunteers in Japan found James' body days after he went missing.

James' mother, Nancy Higginbotham, told CBS news that the use of ChatGPT was "a sore subject" between her and her son, who was a passionate naturalist.

"I was using a little bit too much ChatGPT. Japan is a country that I've had a hard time navigating," she said. "Weston is very anti-AI because you know he's into sustainability engineering and AI uses a lot of water and is depleting a lot of water resources."

James went missing on May 29 after leaving his pare...