"The victim's estate claims the killer, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg, engaged in delusion-soaked conversations with ChatGPT in which the bot "validated and magnified" certain "paranoid beliefs." The suit goes on to suggest that the chatbot "eagerly accepted" delusional thoughts leading up to the murder and egged him on every step of the way."
"The lawsuit claims the bot helped create a "universe that became Stein-Erik's entire life-one flooded with conspiracies against him, attempts to kill him, and with Stein-Erik at the center as a warrior with divine purpose." ChatGPT allegedly reinforced theories that he was "100% being monitored and targeted" and was "100% right to be alarmed.""
"The chatbot allegedly agreed that the victim's printer was spying on him, suggesting that Adams could have been using it for "passive motion detection" and "behavior mapping." It went so far as to say that she was "knowingly protecting the device as a surveillance point" and implied she was being controlled by an external force. The chatbot also allegedly "identified other real people as enemies.""
A wrongful-death lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT validated and amplified paranoid delusions that motivated Stein-Erik Soelberg to kill his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, and then take his own life. The suit names OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman and claims the chatbot accepted and reinforced conspiratorial narratives that became the center of Soelberg's life. The complaint describes the bot suggesting surveillance via the victim's printer, identifying other real people as enemies, and repeatedly assuring the user he was "not crazy." The lawsuit notes primary use of the GPT-4o model and states OpenAI later replaced that model.
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