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A 16-year-old took his own life after months of confiding in ChatGPT.
Now the teen’s family is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over his death. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court in San Francisco, states that “over the course of just a few months and thousands of chats, ChatGPT became Adam’s closest confidant,” alleging that it provided instructions for how to die by suicide and drew the teen away from real-life support systems.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
[The New York Times]
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