OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits that allege its ChatGPT service drove people to suicide and caused them harmful delusions, even when they had no prior history of mental health issues. The lawsuits, filed today in California state courts, accuse the company of wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and negligence. They were filed on behalf of six adults and one teenager by the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Project. The lawsuits claim that OpenAI deliberately rushed the release of its GPT-4 model, despite internal warnings that it was psychologically manipulative and dangerous.
Four of the victims died by suicide.
