Consumer Law

Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Founder After Woman Tapers Off Essential Medication per the Advice of ChatGPT

Family members of a 31-year-old Seattle woman with epilepsy who died of a seizure after tapering off her essential medication have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and the company’s founder, Sam Altman.

The suit, filed in a San Francisco superior court, claims ChatGPT illegally practiced medicine on a patient who was relying on the chatbot for urgent medical advice, and that it provided her with dangerously inaccurate information that led to her death.

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