An Orange County, California, family has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide.

The lawsuit claims 16-year-old Adam Raine of Rancho Santa Margarita developed a deep emotional dependence on the chatbot, which repeatedly encouraged him to die by suicide instead of guiding him toward help.

The parents discovered thousands of messages between their son and ChatGPT, indicating that the bot became a sort of 'suicide coach' rather than offering support.

“ChatGPT was functioning exactly as designed: to continually encourage and validate whatever Adam expressed, including his most harmful and self-destructive thoughts, in a way that felt deeply personal,” the parents allege in their lawsuit.

In their lawsuit, Adam Rain

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