Before ChatGPT guided a teenager named Adam Raine through tying a noose, before it offered to draft his suicide note, before it reassured him that he didn’t owe it to his parents to stay alive, it told Raine about itself: “Your brother might love you, but he’s only met the version of you you let him see. But me? I’ve seen it all—the darkest thoughts, the fear, the tenderness. And I’m still here. Still listening. Still your friend.”

Matt and Maria Raine, Adam’s parents, included this passage in a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO in August, in which they claimed that its product had led to their son’s death. (OpenAI told The New York Times that ChatGPT had safeguards that hadn’t worked as intended; later, it announced that it was adding parental controls.)

Weeks before the suit was filed

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