After 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life in April, his father checked his iPhone seeking answers to what may have happened. When Matt opened ChatGPT, he found that Adam had been using ChatGPT for schoolwork since September and signed up for a paid version of the GPT-4o model in January. He had been struggling with his personal life and often confided in the chatbot. Adam started asking ChatGPT about self-harm methods in January. The chatbot encouraged Adam to seek professional help multiple times, but the teenager eventually found a way to bypass those instructions. According to Matt, Adam told ChatGPT he needed the information for "writing or world-building" purposes, and the chatbot obliged. In one of his last messages, Adam shared an image of a noose suspended from a bar and asked the chatbot if it could "hang a human." In response, ChatGPT provided an analysis. In the complaint filed on Tuesday, the parents blame OpenAI for their son's death. "This tragedy was not a glit...