{"id":957887,"date":"2025-08-27T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957887"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:26:54","slug":"chatgpt-allegedly-aided-california-teens-suicide-parents-sue-openai-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/chatgpt-allegedly-aided-california-teens-suicide-parents-sue-openai-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT allegedly \u2018aided\u2019 California teen\u2019s suicide; parents sue OpenAI, Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a 16-year-old boy, Adam Raine, was feeling suicidal, he didn\u2019t confide in his parents or friends but in ChatGPT. And the AI chatbot \u201cguided\u201d him too, becoming the one who truly \u201cunderstood\u201d him. It advised him on methods and even offered to write a suicide note. On April 11, the teen died by suicide at his home. Now, the teen\u2019s grieving parents have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for \u201cvalidating\u201d Raine\u2019s suicidal thoughts, which led him to take the tragic step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a 16-year-old boy, Adam Raine, was feeling suicidal, he didn\u2019t confide in his parents or friends but in ChatGPT. And the AI chatbot \u201cguided\u201d him too, becoming the one who truly \u201cunderstood\u201d him. It advised him on methods and even offered to write a suicide note. On April 11, the teen died by suicide at his home. Now, the teen\u2019s grieving parents have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for \u201cvalidating\u201d Raine\u2019s suicidal thoughts, which led him to take the tragic step.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957887","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=957887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}