Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI is facing increasing scrutiny over how it handles ChatGPT data after users die, only selectively sharing data in lawsuits over ChatGPT-linked suicides.
Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, took his own life after savagely" murdering his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Adams.
According to the lawsuit-which was filed by Adams' estate on behalf of surviving family members-Soelberg struggled with mental health problems after a divorce led him to move back into Adams' home in 2018. But allegedly Soelberg did not turn violent until ChatGPT became his sole confidant, validating a wide range of wild conspiracies, including a dangerous delusion that his mother was part of a network of conspirators spying on him, tracking him, and making attempts on his life.