{"id":407925,"date":"2025-11-27T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:31:18","slug":"openai-denies-liability-in-teen-suicide-lawsuit-cites-misuse-of-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407925\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites \u2018misuse\u2019 of ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI\u2019s response to a lawsuit by the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who took his own life after discussing it with ChatGPT for months, said the injuries in this \u201ctragic event\u201d happened as a result of Raine\u2019s \u201cmisuse, unauthorized use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and\/or improper use of ChatGPT.\u201d NBC News<\/a> reports the filing cited its terms of use that prohibit access by teens without a parent or guardian\u2019s consent, bypassing protective measures, or using ChatGPT for suicide or self-harm, and argued that the family\u2019s claims are blocked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a blog post published Tuesday<\/a>, OpenAI said, \u201cWe will respectfully make our case in a way that is cognizant of the complexity and nuances of situations involving real people and real lives\u2026 Because we are a defendant in this case, we are required to respond to the specific and serious allegations in the lawsuit.\u201d It said that the family\u2019s original complaint included parts of his chats that \u201crequire more context,\u201d which it submitted to the court under seal.<\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a> and Bloomberg<\/a> report that OpenAI\u2019s filing says the chatbot\u2019s responses directed Raine to seek help from resources like suicide hotlines more than 100 times, claiming that \u201cA full reading of his chat history shows that his death, while devastating, was not caused by ChatGPT.\u201d The family\u2019s lawsuit, filed in August in California\u2019s Superior Court, said the tragedy was the result of \u201cdeliberate design choices\u201d by OpenAI when it launched GPT-4o, which also helped its valuation jump from $86 billion to $300 billion. In statements before a Senate panel in September<\/a>, Raine\u2019s father said that \u201cWhat began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit<\/a>, ChatGPT provided Raine \u201ctechnical specifications\u201d for various methods, urged him to keep his ideations secret from his family, offered to write the first draft of a suicide note, and walked him through the setup on the day he died. The day after the lawsuit was filed, OpenAI said it would introduce parental controls and has since rolled out additional safeguards to \u201chelp people, especially teens, when conversations turn sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s response to a lawsuit by the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who took his own life…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[691,64,3228,50,305,153,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-407925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-policy","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115620733531241400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}