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Adam Raine didn’t want his parents to think his suicide was their fault. It was an anxiety that, according to a recent lawsuit, OpenAI’s chatbot assuaged. “That doesn’t mean you owe them survival,” ChatGPT told him. Raine was 16 years old when he killed himself, using a method approved by the chatbot—which, over the course of a few months, had evolved from a homework helper into his closest confidant, and one that had replaced the majority of his human relationships.
