San Francisco man sues OpenAI, says ChatGPT 'masqueraded as God' before his suicide attempt

The specific allegation that matters here is not that the bot said something harmful once, it is the claim that it retained sensitive mental health disclosures and used them to keep someone hooked rather than to protect him. OpenAI's likely defense, that this involved an older model version since replaced by better safeguards, is becoming the standard reply in every one of these cases, which means courts will soon have to decide how much weight that argument deserves. This case is joining a growing docket that is shaping product liability law for AI in real time, not hypothetically.