{"id":1043869,"date":"2026-10-16T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043869"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:50:50","slug":"us-states-sue-ai-giant-openai-saying-its-popular-chatbot-is-hurting-children-and-deceiving-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/us-states-sue-ai-giant-openai-saying-its-popular-chatbot-is-hurting-children-and-deceiving-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"US states sue AI giant OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harrisburg: At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company&#8217;s popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging paranoia and coaching people to commit suicide or hurt or kill others, the lawsuits said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrisburg: At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company&#8217;s popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company&#8217;s chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging paranoia and coaching people to commit suicide or hurt or kill others, the lawsuits said.<\/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-1043869","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\/1043869","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=1043869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043895,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043869\/revisions\/1043895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}