India, July 23 -- A Florida pastor who says advice he received from ChatGPT nearly cost him his life is suing OpenAI and the company's founder, Sam Altman.In the lawsuit, Scott Winters, 55, claims that as his symptoms worsened in the run-up to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism, he repeatedly asked ChatGPT for help and was told not to seek medical care.
His lawyers say the chatbot "repeatedly and insistently misdiagnosed" him and, drawing on earlier conversations about religion, reassured him that he would recover.
OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri told CBS News (the BBC's US partner) that "ChatGPT is not a doctor and should never be used as a substitute for medical care, diagnosis or treatment." He added that it's common for people to look ...