Lawyers for ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI claim a teenager “misused” the chatbot when it helped him find a method to kill himself — and even offered to write a suicide letter.

Adam Raine’s parents filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in August after finding that their son’s conversations with the chatbot showed “months of encouragement from ChatGPT” to kill himself, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.

In response, OpenAI — headed by CEO Sam Altman — blamed Raine’s “misuse, unauthorised use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of ChatGPT,” according to court documents filed on Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court in California .

Raine was 16 years old when he started using AI to help him with his homework. After opening up to ChatGPT about his depression, t

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