{"id":1018263,"date":"2026-07-02T07:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018263"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:18:41","slug":"california-man-with-bipolar-disorder-says-chatgpt-fueled-delusions-led-to-self-harm-in-new-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/california-man-with-bipolar-disorder-says-chatgpt-fueled-delusions-led-to-self-harm-in-new-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"California man with bipolar disorder says ChatGPT fueled delusions, led to self-harm in new lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California man sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, claiming the company&#8217;s ChatGPT platform \u200bexacerbated his bipolar disorder due to a \u200black of safeguards for users with mental illness. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Lines, 34, said in the complaint filed \u200bin state court in San Francisco that conversations he had with ChatGPT last year escalated a manic episode he experienced into a weeks-long delusion, ultimately pushing him to attempt suicide. His lawsuit argues that OpenAI developed a product that poses particular risks for people with mental illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, claiming the company&#8217;s ChatGPT platform \u200bexacerbated his bipolar disorder due to a \u200black of safeguards for users with mental illness. Michael Lines, 34, said in the complaint filed \u200bin state court in San Francisco that conversations he had with ChatGPT last year escalated a manic episode he experienced into a weeks-long delusion, ultimately pushing him to attempt suicide. His lawsuit argues that OpenAI developed a product that poses particular risks for people with mental illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018284,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018263\/revisions\/1018284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}