A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT stoked a troubled man’s paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother and then kill himself.

The lawsuit was brought against OpenAI by the estate of Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut who was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg. As The Wall Street Journal first reported back in August, Soelberg, who was living with his mother at the time of the killings, was an alcoholic who had a long, troubled history of run-ins with law enforcement and had attempted suicide before. In the months before Soelberg would eventually murder his mother and take his own life, a dizzying array of social media videos he published show that ChatGPT had become a sycophantic confidante, affirming his

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