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highplainsdem

(59,674 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 05:09 PM Dec 11

OpenAI sued for allegedly enabling murder-suicide

Source: Reuters

OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft (MSFT.O), were sued in California state court on Thursday over claims that OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT encouraged a mentally ill man to kill his mother and himself.

The lawsuit said that ChatGPT fueled 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions of a vast conspiracy against him and eventually led him to murder his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, in Connecticut in August.

"ChatGPT kept Stein-Erik engaged for what appears to be hours at a time, validated and magnified each new paranoid belief, and systematically reframed the people closest to him - especially his own mother - as adversaries, operatives, or programmed threats," the lawsuit said.

The case, filed by Adams' estate, is among a small but growing number of lawsuits filed against artificial intelligence companies claiming that their chatbots encouraged suicide. It is the first to link an AI chatbot to a murder.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/openai-sued-allegedly-enabling-murder-suicide-2025-12-11/

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OpenAI sued for allegedly enabling murder-suicide (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 11 OP

AI has no ability to make moral and ethical judgements. Aussie105 Dec 11 #1

The genAI companies should be sued out of existence, and their owners and execs should be highplainsdem Dec 11 #2

This is just the beginning Woodwizard Dec 11 #3

Aussie105

(7,557 posts)

1. AI has no ability to make moral and ethical judgements.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:31 PM

Dec 11

Let the lawsuits rain down on those who provide and worship AI.

highplainsdem

(59,674 posts)

2. The genAI companies should be sued out of existence, and their owners and execs should be

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:43 PM

Dec 11

held legally responsible for harm done.

Woodwizard

(1,260 posts)

3. This is just the beginning

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:23 PM

Dec 11

The ability to weaponize AI for a tailored message is going to expand soon everything will be questionable.
Perfect for trump types to tear everything apart.

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