A Texas family is filing a lawsuit against Open AI, claiming that ChatGPT’s advice led to their 19-year-old son’s accidental overdose and death.
Leila Turner-Scott, mother of Sam Nelson, told CBS News’ Jo Ling Kent that she held “Open AI and the creators… the people who bypassed safety guards and took away safety nets” responsible for Sam’s death.
In a statement, a spokesperson for OpenAI called Sam’s death “a heartbreaking situation” and said in part: “These interactions took place on an earlier version of ChatGPT that is no longer available. ChatGPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations."
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