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A new complaint alleges Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, and then himself in early August after a ChatGPT bot drove him to paranoia

The chatbot allegedly began to convince Soelberg his mother was spying on him and trying to poison him, per the complaint

The filing claims the OpenAI bot cast Soelberg's mother as "an enemy that posed an existential threat to his life"

A new lawsuit filed Thursday, Dec. 11 by First County Bank in its capacity as executor of the Estate of Suzanna Adams alleges that OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot drove a 56-year-old man to kill his 83-year-old mother and then himself at the family’s home in Connecticut in early August — a first-of-its-kind legal filing that seeks to blame a chatbot for driving a human being to murder.

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