Zane Shamblin, RIP

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 of his life, I had discovered that ChatGPT was his suicide coach," Alicia Shamblin, Zane's mother, said. 

"To find out, he spent four hours in his car, with a computer program that said, 'Are you ready yet? Is it time yet?' And after my son took his life, said, 'I love you? Rest easy kid, you did good.' No mother should ever have to read those words," she added. More

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