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ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

Maggie Harrison Dupré

created: Nov. 7, 2025, 5:14 p.m. | updated: Nov. 17, 2025, 4:58 p.m.

Plaintiffs filed seven lawsuits yesterday against OpenAI, accusing the company’s flagship chatbot ChatGPT of causing immense psychological harm and multiple suicides. Per the WSJ, the suits include claims of assisted suicide, manslaughter, and wrongful death, among other allegations. that’s clarity,” the chatbot, writing in all lowercase, told the struggling young man during their last conversation, according to the lawsuit. Weeks after his release, he experienced a second acute breakdown, which Fox says was also connected to his ChatGPT use. More on AI mental health crises: People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

3 months ago: Futurism