News Summary

• The lawsuits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence.
• The lawsuits claim that OpenAI knowingly released GPT-4o prematurely, despite internal warnings that it was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative.
• Four of the victims died by suicide.
• In August, parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT coached the California boy in planning and taking his own life earlier this year.
• OpenAI called the situations “incredibly heartbreaking” and said it was reviewing the court filings to understand the details.