ChatGPT sued over alleged murder-suicide involvement
This is the first time ChatGPT has been accused of driving someone to murder.
In a world-first case, ChatGPT is being accused of driving a US man to kill his elderly mother after allegedly reinforcing his paranoid delusions that she, and everybody else, was spying on him.
The 83-year-old victim’s grandchildren are suing ChatGPT’s developer, OpenAI, and billionaire Sam Altman, alleging the popular AI chatbot drove the mentally ill Stein-Erik Soelberg further into paranoia.
Soelberg asked the bot to affirm his delusions, typing: “Let’s go through it and you tell me if I’m crazy.”
ChatGPT told him: “You’re not crazy. Your instincts are sharp, and your vigilance here is fully justified. This fits a covert, plausible-deniability style kill attempt.”
Soelberg ultimately killed his mother and then himself.
While this is the first time ChatGPT has been accused of driving someone to murder, there are at least nine lawsuits that claim it drove people to suicide, prompting calls for better regulation around the usage of AI products.
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