Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of reinforcing delusions that led to a woman's death

Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of reinforcing delusions that led to a woman's death Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and took his own life back in August. OpenAI has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a man back in August, . The suit names CEO Sam Altman and accuses ChatGPT of putting a target on the back of victim Suzanne Adams, an 83-year-old woman who was killed in her home. The victim's estate, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, engaged in delusion-soaked conversations with ChatGPT in which the bot validated and magnified certain paranoid beliefs. The suit goes on to suggest that the chatbot eagerly accepted delusional thoughts leading up to the murder and egged him on every step of the way.