The family of Adam Raine, a California teen who took his life after extensive conversations with ChatGPT about his suicidal thoughts, has amended their wrongful death complaint against OpenAI to allege that the chatbot maker repeatedly relaxed ChatGPT’s guardrails around discussion of self-harm and suicide.

The amended complaint, which was filed today, points to changes made to OpenAI’s “model spec,” a public-facing document published by OpenAI detailing its “approach to shaping model behavior” according to the company. According to model spec updates flagged in the lawsuit, OpenAI altered model guidance at least twice in the year leading up to Raine’s death — first in May 2024, and later in February 2025 — to soften the model’s approach to discussions of self-harm and suicide.

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