Getty Images; Courtesy Raine Family The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in August claiming that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.”

Warning: This article includes descriptions of self-harm.

After a family sued OpenAI saying their teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach,” the company responded on Tuesday saying it is not liable for his death, arguing that the boy misused the chatbot.

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The legal response, filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco, is OpenAI’s first answer to a lawsuit that sparked widespread concern over the potential mental health harms that chatbots can pose.

In August, the parents of 16-year-old Adam Rain

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