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OpenAI has shot back at a family that’s suing the company over the suicide of their teenage son, arguing that the 16-year-old used ChatGPT incorrectly and that his tragic death was his own fault.

The family filed the lawsuit in late August, arguing that the AI chatbot had coaxed their son Adam Raine into killing himself.

Now, in a legal response filed in a California court this week, OpenAI has broken its silence, arguing that the boy had used the chatbot wrong and broken the company’s terms of service, as NBC News reports — a shocking argument that’s bound to draw

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