{"id":1043589,"date":"2026-10-15T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043589"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:04:20","slug":"openai-sued-by-eight-us-states-over-claims-chatgpt-endangers-teens-encourages-self-harm-dangerous-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/openai-sued-by-eight-us-states-over-claims-chatgpt-endangers-teens-encourages-self-harm-dangerous-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI sued by eight US states over claims ChatGPT endangers teens, encourages self-harm, dangerous behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of eight states said on Wednesday they had sued OpenAI in courts across the country over harms they say ChatGPT has caused to their residents, alleging the chatbot has coached its users \u2014 including teenagers \u2014 to harm themselves or others. <\/p>\n<p>Attorneys general from the states, which include Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, filed the lawsuits independently in state courts, claiming ChatGPT is designed to be agreeable and engaging to earn the trust of users. But the chatbot reinforces delusions, encourages dangerous behavior and assists users in planning violence like mass shootings, the lawsuits claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of eight states said on Wednesday they had sued OpenAI in courts across the country over harms they say ChatGPT has caused to their residents, alleging the chatbot has coached its users \u2014 including teenagers \u2014 to harm themselves or others. Attorneys general from the states, which include Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, filed the lawsuits independently in state courts, claiming ChatGPT is designed to be agreeable and engaging to earn the trust of users. But the chatbot reinforces delusions, encourages dangerous behavior and assists users in planning violence like mass shootings, the lawsuits claim.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043589","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=1043589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043614,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043589\/revisions\/1043614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}