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The parents of a 16-year-old California teen who killed himself are suing OpenAI, alleging that the company's artificial intelligence chatbot coached their son on how to plan a "beautiful suicide" by helping him explore different methods to end his life.

On Tuesday, the family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit in San Francisco's Superior Court, The New York Times and other news outlets reported this week. The teen, who died by suicide in April, had been using ChatGPT since 2024 to help with his schoolwork.

"This tragedy was not a glitch or an unforeseen edge case — it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices," the complaint states. "OpenAI launched its latest model ('GPT-4o') with features intentionally designed to foster psychological dependency."

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