Canadian mother sues Ultraman and OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT of inducing daughter to commit suicide.

A Canadian mother filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Thursday against the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the chatbot ChatGPT of leading her daughter to suicide. There have been several lawsuits recently accusing the company of failing to control dangerous conversations between users and chatbots, and this case is the latest. The lawsuit was filed in the San Francisco State Court. Plaintiff Christy Carroll stated that her daughter Alice had expressed suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT more than a dozen times before her death, but OpenAI's safety system did not flag the conversations for human review or terminate them. OpenAI stated that the model has been trained to guide users to seek help when they express self-harm or suicide tendencies and connect them with real-life support resources. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Paisley said, "This tragedy is heartbreaking, and we offer our condolences to all those affected by it. Currently, we are reviewing this lawsuit, and the conversations mentioned in the lawsuit occurred on an old version of ChatGPT, which is no longer in use."