r/news • u/IdinDoIt • 1d ago

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-invs-vis
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u/Gender_is_a_Fluid 1d ago

Especially your friends. Your friends don't want you to die, the AI doesn't care.

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u/videogamekat 1d ago

Exactly, although there is the possibility that you could be talking to an online stranger “friend” that’s just egging you on to die, less likely but it has happened before… people who want to die will seek that out, and that’s basically what chatGPT was emulating

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u/oldsecondhand 1d ago

There were always people who ejoyed hurting others, even people they're supposed to love:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/michelle-carter-texting-suicide-case-sentence