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Kevin Okemwa

Family sues OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT encouraged their teen’s suicide — here’s what we know

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during the Federal Reserve Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

ChatGPT has come a long way since OpenAI launched it in late November 2022, causing a paradigm shift in the tech space with artificial intelligence chatbots, as it initially fell into regular 'hallucination' episodes or struggled to generate believable images.

Over the past few years, users have openly expressed their reluctance to interact with the AI technology, citing privacy and safety issues. Regulators have also highlighted the importance of having elaborate security measures and guardrails to prevent the technology from spiralling out of control and potentially causing existential threats to humanity.

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