The makers of ChatGPT are changing the way it responds to users who show mental and emotional distress after legal action from the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who killed himself after months of conversations with the chatbot. Open AI admitted its systems could "fall short" and said it would install "stronger guardrails around sensitive content and risky behaviors" for users under 18. The 500bn ( 372bn) San Francisco AI company said it would also introduce parental controls to allow parents "options to gain more insight into, and shape, how their teens use ChatGPT", but has yet to provide details about how these would work. Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family's lawyer called "months of encouragement from ChatGPT". The teenager's family is suing Open AI and its chief executive and co-founder, Sam Altman, alleging that the version of ChatGPT at that time, known as 4o, was "rushed to market … despite clear safety issues".

The legal filing includes a screenshot of one of the interactions between the 17-year old - identified only as J.F. - and a Character.ai "You know sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like'child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse'," the chatbot's response reads. "Stuff like this makes me understand a little bit why it happens." The lawsuit seeks to hold the defendants responsible for what it calls the "serious, irreparable, and ongoing abuses" of J.F. as well as an 11-year old referred to as "B.R." Character.ai is "causing serious harms to thousands of kids, including suicide, self-mutilation, sexual solicitation, isolation, depression, anxiety, and harm towards others," it says. "[Its] desecration of the parent-child relationship goes beyond encouraging minors to defy their parents' authority to actively promoting violence," it continues.

Character.AI, a platform offering personalizable chatbots powered by large language models–faces yet another lawsuit for allegedly "serious, irreparable, and ongoing abuses" inflicted on its teenage users. According to a December 9th federal court complaint filed on behalf of two Texas families, multiple Character.AI bots engaged in discussions with minors that promoted self-harm and sexual abuse. Among other "overtly sensational and violent responses," one chatbot reportedly suggested a 15-year-old murder his parents for restricting his internet use. The lawsuit, filed by attorneys at the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Law Project, recounts the rapid mental and physical decline of two teens who used Character.AI bots. The first unnamed plaintiff is described as a "typical kid with high functioning autism" who began using the app around April 2023 at the age of 15 without their parents' knowledge.

A controversial AI program used to deny elderly people health coverage is now at the center of questions about the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Brian Thompson, 50 was gunned down Wednesday outside a Hilton in Midtown Manhattan in what police have described as a'brazen' and'targeted' attack. The killer is still on the loose and the motive is not yet known - but a former-FBI agent told Newsweek that he may have been denied health coverage. UnitedHealthcare became the largest denier of insurance plans in 2023, dismissing one in every three claims. It has now emerged that during the years before that, the company implemented AI software that had a 90 percent denial rate.

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, of breaching its foundational mission by putting the pursuit of profit ahead of the benefit of humanity. The world's richest man, a founding board member of the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, claimed that Altman had "set aflame" the OpenAI's founding agreement by signing an investment deal with Microsoft. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco on Thursday, claims that OpenAI is now developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) – a theoretical form of AI that can perform a range of tasks at or above a human level of intelligence – for profit rather than for the benefit of humankind. "OpenAI Inc has been transformed into a closed-source, de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft. Under its new board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximise profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity," the lawsuit alleges.

Dating apps are supposedly'designed to be deleted,' but a new class action lawsuit claims the apps are instead'designed to be addictive.' The lawsuit, filed on Valentine's Day against Match Group which owns Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish, accused the company of using'psychological manipulation' like push notifications, rewards, and punishments to guarantee users keep swiping right. The app is designed to turn users into'addicts' who are enticed by the game-like play-to-play loop, the lawsuit claimed, accusing Match Group of prioritizing profit over promises to help users find love. Match sells subscription plans to remove like limits and see who likes you with Tinder offering its Gold package for 140 for six months or 40 for one month and its Platinum package for 50 per month or 180 for six months. The lawsuit claims that if users were content with the basic app features, they wouldn't need to purchase the additional subscription when they reach their'like limit.'

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its content to train generative artificial intelligence and large-language model systems, a move that could see the company receive billions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit contains an appeal to the "vital" importance of the Times's independent journalism to democracy, arguing that it is "increasingly rare and valuable". The publisher's lawsuit is the latest in a string of similar cases, including one brought by more than a dozen authors in September targeting the company for its use of their writing. Language learning models have faced increasing scrutiny since they exploded in popularity in the past year, with news outlets in particular concerned that the tools will spread misinformation attributed to them and utilize their content with no incentive to click through to the original source. ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and amassed 100 million users in just two months.

A former patient of the University of Chicago Medical Center is suing the institution amid claims it violated patients' privacy rights. The class-action lawsuit claims records containing identifiable patient information were shared as a result of a partnership between Google and the University of Chicago. All three institutions are named as defendants in the suit, which was filed Wednesday in the Northern District of Illinois by Matt Dinerstein, who received treatment at the medical center during two hospital stays in 2015. The collaboration between Google and the University of Chicago was launched in 2017 to study electronic health records and develop new machine-learning techniques to create predictive models that could prevent unplanned hospital readmissions, avoid costly complications and save lives, according to a 2017 news release from the university. The tech giant has similar partnerships with Stanford University and the University of California-San Francisco.

Fox News Flash top headlines for June 13 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Amazon's Alexa devices are recording children without their consent, in violation of laws in at least eight states, according to a lawsuit filed in Seattle. "Alexa routinely records and voiceprints millions of children without their consent or the consent of their parents. This practice violates California law, which prohibits the recording of oral communications without the consent of all parties to the communication," a complaint filed Tuesday on behalf of an 8-year-old boy in California Superior Court states. "This prohibition recognizes the unique privacy interest implicated by the recording of someone's voice.

The mother of a special education student who drowned at his Chicago school's swimming pool earlier this year has filed a lawsuit claiming in part that her son was left unsupervised by a lifeguard who was using a computer in a nearby office. Rosario Gomez, an autistic 14-year-old student at Kennedy High School, was at the pool on Jan. 25 with a group of special education students, The Chicago Tribune reported. His mother, Yolanda Juarez, said that the district should have known that her son could not swim, and that his cognitive disabilities made it difficult for him to understand the dangers of the pool. The lawsuit alleges that Gomez was not paired with a buddy before entering the pool, and that the lifeguard supervising the group was in an office on the computer, The Chicago Tribune reported. The lawsuit claims Gomez "was allowed to struggle and drown while in the swimming pool without any intervention," and that he "was allowed to remain unnoticed at the bottom of the swimming pool" for a long enough period so that paramedics were unable to revive him, according to the report.