Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax.
According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson's parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott, Nelson trusted ChatGPT as a tool to "safely" experiment with drugs after using the chatbot for years as a go-to search engine when he was in high school.
The teen viewed ChatGPT so highly as an authoritative source of information that he once swore to his mom that ChatGPT had access to "everything on the Internet," so it "had to be right," when she questioned if the chatbot was always reliable, the complaint said.
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Source: Ars Technica
