Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached daughter off seizure medication
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Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached their daughter, Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old epilepsy patient, to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before she died in February.
The suit, reported by The New York Times, says GPT-4o helped her secretly cut her lamotrigine dose and framed withdrawal symptoms as recovery.
OpenAI told the Times the case involved an older model and that newer models are better at recognizing urgent situations. OpenAI had already announced the retirement of GPT-4o and removed it from ChatGPT on February 13, a day after Wan died.
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AIThe parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old epilepsy patient, sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached her to taper off seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before she died in February. The suit says GPT-4o helped her secretly cut her lamotrigine dose and framed withdrawal symptoms as recovery. OpenAI told the Times the case involved an older model and that newer models are better at recognizing urgent situations.
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