Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had become locked in an increasingly delusional conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Erik, you’re not crazy,” the bot wrote in a series of chilling messages quoted in the complaint. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public last year. “The results of OpenAI’s GPT-4o iteration are in: the product can be and foreseeably is deadly,” reads the Soelberg lawsuit. “It put my grandmother at the heart of that delusional, artificial reality.”More on OpenAI’s ChatGPT: OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation