Lawsuit claims ChatGPT put a ‘target’ on murdered woman
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OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging ChatGPT validated a man's delusions, leading to his mother's murder and his suicide. The lawsuit claims the chatbot put a 'target' on the victim.
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OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a 56-year-old man killed his mother and took his own life after delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Thursday, accuses ChatGPT of putting a "target" on the back of 83-year-old Suzanne Adams, who was killed at her Connecticut home in August.
The victim's estate claims ChatGPT "validated and magnified" the "paranoid beliefs" of Adams' son, Stein-Erik Soelberg, contributing to her death. As outlined in the lawsuit, Soelberg documented his conversations with ChatGPT in videos posted to YouTube, revealing that the chatbot "eagerly accepted" his del …