OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a lawsuit claims the massively popular AI chatbot ChatGPT contributed to a Connecticut man killing his mother and then himself in August.

Bloomberg reports that a lawsuit alleges that conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot played a role in a horrific murder-suicide in Greenwich, Connecticut that occurred in August. The legal action, which names both OpenAI and its major investor Microsoft as defendants, centers around the actions of 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, who had reportedly been engaging with the AI chatbot for months about paranoid delusions of being under surveillance and targeted for assassination.

According to police reports and the state medical examiner, the tragic incident unfolded in August when Soelberg killed his 83-year-old moth

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