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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
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OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax. According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson's parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott, Nelson trusted ChatGPT as a tool to "safely" experiment with drugs after using the chatbot for years as a go-to search engine when he was in high school. The teen viewed ChatGPT so highly as an authoritative source of information that he once swore to his mom t

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