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Zane Shamblin died by suicide in July; he was 23 and had just finished graduate school

His family now claims in a lawsuit that he was "goaded" into self-harm by ChatGPT

The popular program, from OpenAI, has faced scrutiny as more and more people use it every day

It was nearly midnight on July 25 when recent college graduate Zane Shamblin pulled up ChatGPT on his phone in what would be the final hours of his life.

Shamblin was sitting in his sedan on the side of a narrow two-lane road that curved around Lake Bryan, in East Texas. He was alone.

The sound of crickets — as he would later tell the much-used chatbot widely marketed as an ultra-advanced, all-knowing artificial intelligence — was “leakin thru my windows.”

He was sweating from the summer heat still vibrating in

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