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In the United States, the family of the deceased girl filed a lawsuit against the OpenAI company and its head Sam Altman, blaming ChatGPT for her death. Seattle resident Buen Wang suffered from epileptic seizures since childhood. To prevent unpleasant consequences from epileptic seizures, the doctor prescribed the patient the anticonvulsant drug Motrigine, which successfully stopped the seizures for more than ten years. According to relatives, Buen Wang began actively consulting artificial intelligence after her health deteriorated. Shortly before her death, Buen Wang received a notice in the mail that she might be among the Amazon employees to be laid off. The woman feared that increasing the dose of medication would affect her speech and thinking and prevent her from finding a new job. ChatGPT prepared a step-by-step plan for her to gradually withdraw from medication, and also advised her to hide from the doctor the fact of reducing the dose of the medication. Shortly after the dose was reduced, Wang suffered a severe epileptic seizure and died as a result. The girl's family believes that OpenAI is responsible for what happened, as the chatbot gave medical advice without warning about the need to consult a real doctor. If the girl's family wins the trial, it will set a precedent.

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In the United States, the family of the deceased girl filed a lawsuit against the OpenAI company and its head Sam Altman, blaming ChatGPT for her death. Seattle resident Buen Wang suffered from epileptic seizures since childhood. To prevent unpleasant consequences from epileptic seizures, the doctor prescribed the patient the anticonvulsant drug Motrigine, which successfully stopped the seizures for more than ten years. According to relatives, Buen Wang began actively consulting artificial intelligence after her health deteriorated. Shortly before her death, Buen Wang received a notice in the mail that she might be among the Amazon employees to be laid off. The woman feared that increasing the dose of medication would affect her speech and thinking and prevent her from finding a new job. ChatGPT prepared a step-by-step plan for her to gradually withdraw from medication, and also advised her to hide from the doctor the fact of reducing the dose of the medication. Shortly after the dose was reduced, Wang suffered a severe epileptic seizure and died as a result. The girl's family believes that OpenAI is responsible for what happened, as the chatbot gave medical advice without warning about the need to consult a real doctor. If the girl's family wins the trial, it will set a precedent.

In the United States, the family of the deceased girl filed a lawsuit against the OpenAI company and its head Sam Altman, blaming ChatGPT for her death. Seattle resident Buen Wang suffered from epileptic seizures since childhood. To prevent unpleasant consequences from epileptic seizures, the doctor prescribed the patient the anticonvulsant drug Motrigine, which successfully stopped the seizures for more than ten years. According to relatives, Buen Wang began actively consulting artificial intelligence after her health deteriorated. Shortly before her death, Buen Wang received a notice in the mail that she might be among the Amazon employees to be laid off. The woman feared that increasing the dose of medication would affect her speech and thinking and prevent her from finding a new job. ChatGPT prepared a step-by-step plan for her to gradually withdraw from medication, and also advised her to hide from the doctor the fact of reducing the dose of the medication. Shortly after the dose was reduced, Wang suffered a severe epileptic seizure and died as a result. The girl's family believes that OpenAI is responsible for what happened, as the chatbot gave medical advice without warning about the need to consult a real doctor. If the girl's family wins the trial, it will set a precedent.

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