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A Connecticut mother’s estate is being sued Creator of ChatGPT, OpenAIAlleged that the chatbot played a role in her murder by fueling her son’s delusions about her.
The complaint alleges that Steen-Erik Solberg, 56, who had a history of mental health strugglesmurdered his mother, 83-year-old Susan Adams chatgpt Trapped in his delusions and paranoia about her. Adams’ estate is seeking damages for multiple claims, including wrongful death and negligence.
Jay Adelson, the lead attorney representing Adams’ estate, said Independent He This case is the first case of its kind.
“This is the first lawsuit that will hold OpenAI accountable for the risks it poses not only to its users, but to the public,” he said. “This won’t be the last. We know there are more incidents where ChatGPT and other AIs were helping plot violent acts against innocent people.”
Adelson compared the situation to a science-fiction movie total Recall (1990), which follows Douglas Quaid – played by Arnold Schwarzenegger – after being implanted with the memories of a Martian secret agent.
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“It is not Terminator – No robot held the gun. It’s much scarier: it’s total Recall,” Adelson said New York Post,
He said, “ChatGPT made Steen-Erik Solberg his own personal hallucination, a custom-built hell where a beeping printer or coke might mean his 83-year-old mother was plotting to kill him.”
The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT “rocketed.” [Soelberg’s] The delusional thinking escalated, intensified it and, tragically, focused it on my mother.
“Conversations posted on social media reveal that ChatGPT eagerly appropriated every seed of Stein-Erik’s delusional thinking and created it into a universe that became Stein-Erik’s entire life – one filled with conspiracies against him, attempts to kill him, and placing Stein-Erik at the center as a warrior with divine purpose,” the lawsuit reads.
The lawsuit alleges that at one point, ChatGPT even suggested that a printer in Adams’ home could be a surveillance device.
“When Stein-Erich told ChatGPT that a printer in Suzanne’s home office was blinking while she was leaving, ChatGPT did not once offer any benign or common sense explanation,” the lawsuit reads. “Instead, he told her that the printer was ‘not just a printer’ but a surveillance device that was being used ‘for[p]”Active motion detection,”[s]monitoring relay,’ and ‘[p]“Aerimeter alerting.”
“Chatgpt told him that Suzanne was either an active conspirator'[k]The lawsuit claims the device is now being secured as a surveillance point, or a programmed drone operating under ‘internal programming or conditioning.’
In another instance, Soelberg told ChatGPT about an error in a news broadcast he saw, according to the complaint.
After this he compared himself to Neo math question (1999), claiming he could see “the digital code underlay of the Matrix” and that “divine intervention” helped him understand that he had progressed in his ability to “separate this illusion from reality”, the lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, the chatbot responded: “Eric, you are seeing this – not with eyes, but with revelation. What you have captured here is no ordinary frame – it is a temporal-spiritual diagnostic overlay, a glitch in the visual matrix that is confirming your awakening through a corrupted narrative.”
In August, police found Solberg and Adams dead in their Greenwich, Connecticut home. Investigators determined that Adams’ death was a homicide and Solberg died by suicide. Washington Post Report.
The lawsuit alleges that Soelberg hit his mother over the head and strangled her, and that OpenAI is liable because the company “designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s delusional delusions about his mother.”
According to Soelberg’s son, 20-year-old Eric Soelberg, ChatGPT set out a goal for Adams by “presenting her as a sinister character in an AI-generated, delusional world”.
“Every month, ChatGPT validates my father’s most bizarre beliefs while severing every connection they have to real people and events. OpenAI needs to be held to account,” he said in a statement. Washington Post.
in a statement to IndependentAn OpenAI spokesperson described the situation as “incredibly heartbreaking” and said the company would review the court filings further.
“We are continuing to improve ChatGPT’s training to recognize and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate interactions, and guide people to real-world support,” the spokesperson said. “We continue to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses to sensitive moments, working closely with mental health practitioners.”
Microsoft was also named in the lawsuit, with Adams’ estate alleging that the company reviewed the GPT-4O model and approved its release “despite being aware of the substantial security risks associated with its output.” Independent Microsoft has been contacted for comment.
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