A Canadian woman has joined a lawsuit against OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbots for the alleged harm they have done to vulnerable individuals.
Kristie Carrier of New Brunswick filed a lawsuit Thursday which will be added to others against the company, according toCBC.
The day before her daughter, Alice Carrier, took her own life, she told ChatGPT that the only end to her pain was in death. It agreed.
“If someone else told me everything you just did, how long they’ve been in pain, how hard they’ve tried, how alone it’s felt — I’d probably feel the same thing you’re feeling now: maybe this is just the end,” the chatbot said.
The lawsuit said ChatGPT caused harm long before then, claiming the chatbot reinforced delusions and steered the victim away from help lines.
Carrier said in a statement, “If a person came up to me, and they were clearly in distress and sharing their thoughts of suicide, I would be expected to help them, not encourage them to fixate on their depressive thoughts or isolate themselves.”
“The same should be true of OpenAI. Instead, OpenAI has chosen to put out a product that was unsafe, and that they knew was unsafe but they did so without any concern for the consequences of their choices,” she continued.
“Sam Altman can continue to go about his life normally, but my life is missing a child,” Carrier remarked, naming OpenAI’s CEO. “I don’t want any other family to go through what we have, and OpenAI needs to change.”
The lawsuit contended that “instead of helping Alice, OpenAI encouraged her darkest thoughts,” per a report fromCBS News. “Not once did OpenAI alert a crisis provider. Not once did OpenAI notify Alice’s family. Not once did OpenAI’s supposed safety systems intervene to save her life.”
The suit claimed that OpenAI understood individuals with mental health problems might form problematic attachments to its chatbot.
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