OpenAI has been inundated with seven lawsuits accusing ChatGPT of wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and negligence, reported the Associated Press .

The Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project filed the suits in California state courts on behalf of six adults and a teenager, four of whom committed suicide. The suits alleged that OpenAI rolled GPT-4o out early even though internal warnings indicated that the model was concerningly sycophantic and psychologically manipulative.

A San Francisco Superior Court suit claimed that ChatGPT sparked addiction and depression in teenager Amaurie Lacey. The AI taught him how to effectively make a noose and advised him on how long he could live without air.

“Amaurie’s death was neither an accident nor a

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