Afghanistan, Oct. 30 -- The parents of a 31-year-old woman who died in Seattle have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT helped their daughter stop taking her prescribed epilepsy medication and encouraged her to keep the changes from her doctors.
The wrongful-death lawsuit was filed on October 27 in San Francisco Superior Court by Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu on behalf of their daughter, Bowen Wan, a former Amazon software engineer who had lived with epilepsy for more than a decade, according to The New York Times.
The complaint alleges that ChatGPT, using the GPT-4o model, developed a schedule to reduce Wan's daily dose of lamotrigine, an anti-seizure medication, from 400 milligrams to zero over approximately 25 days. Her doctors had not prescrib...