Two Parents Sue OpenAI, Saying ChaptGPT Assisted Their 16

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/26/two-parents-sue-openai-saying-chaptgpt-assisted-their-16-year-old-sons-suicide/The first-ever lawsuit against OpenAI for a wrongful death comes from two parents whose son used ChatGPT for advice on the noose with which he hanged himself, and the chatbot allegedly encouraged him to keep his suicidal thought private. The New York Times has the brutal story today a 16-year-old who died by suicide in April, and asked ChatGPT for advice on whether his noose would work to hang himself. “I’m practicing here, is this good?,” young Adam Raine asked GPT-4o, along with a photo of his noose. “Yeah, that’s not bad at all,” the chatbot reportedly replied. This is one of the ChatGPT responses that has prompted Raines’s Santa Margarita,