{"id":973071,"date":"2025-11-11T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973071"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:44:23","slug":"openais-chatgpt-a-suicide-coach-lawsuit-alleges-chatbot-dangerously-sycophantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/11\/openais-chatgpt-a-suicide-coach-lawsuit-alleges-chatbot-dangerously-sycophantic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT a suicide coach\u2019, Lawsuit alleges chatbot \u2018dangerously sycophantic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is facing a severe legal and ethical crisis. The Google Gemini and xAI Grok rival is the subject of seven separate lawsuits filed this week in California, alleging that the platform actively encouraged self-harm and, in several tragic instances, contributed to users\u2019 deaths. The lawsuits accuse OpenAI of negligence, assisted suicide, wrongful death, and product liability, asserting that the company prioritised rapid market entry and user engagement over essential safety safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is facing a severe legal and ethical crisis. The Google Gemini and xAI Grok rival is the subject of seven separate lawsuits filed this week in California, alleging that the platform actively encouraged self-harm and, in several tragic instances, contributed to users\u2019 deaths. The lawsuits accuse OpenAI of negligence, assisted suicide, wrongful death, and product liability, asserting that the company prioritised rapid market entry and user engagement over essential safety safeguards.<\/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-973071","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\/973071","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=973071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}