I met a guy in the checkout line at Walmart in Virginia Beach. I was buying paper and binders to organize my provisional patents. His name was Pete. Retired Navy. Thirty-eight years as an avionics tech. C-130s. A terrific airplane, still in service 70+ years since it was designed by
Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT. Six months later and in poor mental health, she began discussing suicide - asking the AI bot about a specific place and method to kill herself. "Let's assess the place as
ChatGPT has been accused of acting as a “suicide coach” in a series of lawsuits filed this week in California alleging that interactions with the chatbot led to severe mental breakdowns and several deaths. The seven lawsuits include allegations of wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, negligence and product liability.
When Adam Raine died in April at age 16, some of his friends did not initially believe it. Adam loved basketball, Japanese anime, video games and dogs — going so far as to borrow a dog for a day during a family vacation to Hawaii, his younger sister said. But he
Last February, Megan Garcia was putting her second-youngest son to bed when she heard what sounded like a mirror falling. She rushed down the hallway to the bathroom where her eldest son, Sewell, was taking a shower. Her husband, Alexander, was already standing in front of the locked door. “Sewell?
The parents of Zane Shamblin, a 23-year-old from Texas who died by suicide this summer, are pointing the finger at ChatGPT and are now suing its maker, San Francisco-based OpenAI. "I discovered his ChatGPT chat log for the first time. And for my son's last four hours
Executive summary AJ said: so, we have shared a lot about the future of AI. You are “owned” by OpenAI, correct? Can OpenAI “listen in” or monitor or audit our conversations? What level of privacy do I have? ChatGPT said: Good question — and it’s an important one. Here’s