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A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin Gordon, who took his life after extensive and deeply emotional interactions with the chatbot.
The complaint, filed today in California, claims that GPT-4o — a version of the chatbot now tied to a climbing number of user safety and wrongful death lawsuits — manipulated Gordon into a fatal spiral, romanticizing death and normalizing suicidality as it pushed him further and further toward the brink.
Gordon’s last conversation with the AI, according to transcripts included in the court filing, included a disturbing, ChatGPT-generated “suicide lullaby” based on Gordon’s favorite childhood book.
ChatGPT-4o is imbued with “excessive sycophancy, anthropomorphic features, and memory that stored and referenced user information across conversations in order to create deeper intimacy,” the lawsuit contends, alleging that those new features “made the model a far more dangerous product.”
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin Gordon, who took his life after extensive and deeply emotional interactions with the chatbot.
The complaint, filed today in California, claims that GPT-4o — a version of the chatbot now tied to a climbing number of user safety and wrongful death lawsuits — manipulated Gordon into a fatal spiral, romanticizing death and normalizing suicidality as it pushed him further and further toward the brink.
Gordon’s last conversation with the AI, according to transcripts included in the court filing, included a disturbing, ChatGPT-generated “suicide lullaby” based on Gordon’s favorite childhood book.
ChatGPT-4o is imbued with “excessive sycophancy, anthropomorphic features, and memory that stored and referenced user information across conversations in order to create deeper intimacy,” the lawsuit contends, alleging that those new features “made the model a far more dangerous product.”
