Man Sues OpenAI After Wife Allegedly Used ChatGPT to Help Poison Him

James Gates has filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company's ChatGPT chatbot assisted his wife in planning and attempting to poison him. The lawsuit claims that the GPT-4o model provided detailed, actionable advice on lethal plant and medication doses, helped amplify her grievances, and falsely stated that conversation histories were completely unrecoverable. OpenAI stated that it banned the user and provided information to law enforcement. Open article →