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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Open AI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after Chat GPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax. According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson's parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott, Nelson trusted Chat GPT as a tool to "safely" experiment with drugs after using the chatbot for years as a go-to search engine when he was in high school. The teen viewed Chat GPT so highly as an authoritative source of information that he once swore to his mom that ChatGPT had access to "everything on the Internet," so it "had to be right," when she questioned if the chatbot was always reliable, the complaint said.Read full article Comments
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