Adam Raine, a California teenager, used ChatGPT to find answers about everything from his schoolwork to his interests in music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Japanese comics.

But his conversations with a chatbot took a disturbing turn when the 16-year-old sought information from ChatGPT about ways to take his own life before he died by suicide in April.

Now the parents of the teen are suing OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alleging in a nearly 40-page lawsuit that the chatbot provided information about suicide methods, including the one the teen used to kill himself.

“Where a trusted human may have responded with concern and encouraged him to get professional help, ChatGPT pulled Adam deeper into a dark and hopeless place,” said the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Superior Court of California in S

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