US EditionOpen AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide
The lawsuit claims ChatGPT intensified paranoid delusions that led to a murder-suicide and seeks damages plus court-ordered safety improvements for AI chatbots.
- The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for wrongful death, claiming that ChatGPT contributed to her son’s violent actions against her.
- The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI designed a defective product that reinforced the user's paranoid delusions about his mother.
- It states that ChatGPT built an artificial reality where the mother was seen as a threat rather than a protector.
- The lawsuit also names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accusing him of bypassing safety concerns in the product's release.
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Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56 years old, thought he was being watched by a printer and victim of attempts to poison. ChatGPT, to whom he "confessed" several times, would never have refuted these claims. A "support", which according to the quinquennial's entourage, would have amplified his paranoid delusions: on 3 August last, the American strangled his 83-year-old mother, at their home of Old Greenwich (Connecticut), considering her as a threat, befor…
OpenAI, Microsoft slammed with lawsuit after ChatGPT allegedly drives disturbing murder-suicide: 'Validated a user's paranoid delusions'
OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by a Connecticut family alleging ChatGPT encouraged a man's violent delusions in the days leading up to a tragic murder-suicide. What happened? According to the lawsuit, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg became intensely dependent on ChatGPT over months of conversations. The filing claims the chatbot repeatedly affirmed Soelberg's delusional fears, allegedly telling him he possessed "divine powers" and that his …
ChatGPT Now Accused of Aiding a Murder
Several lawsuits have blamed AI-driven chatbots for users' suicides. Now, one alleges ChatGPT is to blame for a woman's murder . The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former tech executive with a documented history of mental illness, turned to ChatGPT last...
The relatives of an octogenary killed by her son filed a complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing ChatGPT of contributing to the murder.
A complaint was filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing ChatGPT of contributing to a murder followed by suicide in the United States. ...
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