{"id":570945,"date":"2026-07-06T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:00:09","slug":"openai-faces-suit-after-bipolar-users-brush-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/570945\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI faces suit after bipolar user\u2019s brush with death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOpenAI didn\u2019t just ignore Michael\u2019s disability \u2014 it used it against him. After he disclosed his bipolar diagnosis, the system incorporated that information to draw him deeper into harmful interactions instead of steering him toward safety. Michael trusted this product with his most sensitive information, and OpenAI used that trust to intensify engagement rather than protect him. That is the opposite of responsible design, and it is exactly the kind of conduct California\u2019s laws were written to prevent,\u201d said Matthew P. Bergman, the Social Media Victims Law Center\u2019s founding attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/techjusticelaw.org\/press-releases\/openai-california-disability-law-safety-lawsuit-chatgpt-product-liability-negligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOpenAI didn\u2019t just ignore Michael\u2019s disability \u2014 it used it against him. After he disclosed his bipolar diagnosis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[276],"tags":[9413,18,135,19,17,167,502,307,34361],"class_list":["post-570945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-death","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-openai","tag-suit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116871038745449093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}