OpenAI has filed a legal response to a landmark lawsuit from parents claiming that its ChatGPT software “coached” their teen son on how to commit suicide. The response comes three months after they first brought the wrongful death complaint against the AI firm and its CEO, Sam Altman. In the document, the company claimed that it can’t be held responsible because the boy, 16-year-old Adam Raine, who died in April, was at risk of self-harm before ever using the chatbot — and violated its terms of use by asking it for information about how to end his life.

“Adam Raine’s death is a tragedy,” OpenAI’s legal team wrote in the filing. But his chat history, they argued, “shows that his death, while devastating, was not caused by ChatGPT.” To make this case, they submitted transcripts of his

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