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Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines
A 24-year-old Canadian woman, Alice Carrier, used ChatGPT during a mental health crisis and later died by suicide. Her family filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging ChatGPT's design encouraged her self-harm and blaming OpenAI for deploying a dangerous product.
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