lawsuits

San Francisco, November 7, 2025 — OpenAI is facing seven separate law suits filed in California state courts that accuse its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, of contributing to suicides and severe psychological harm in users who reportedly had no prior mental health conditions. The suits, brought on behalf of six adults and one teenager by the Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project, allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence. Plaintiffs claim OpenAI released its GPT-4o model prematurely, ignoring internal warnings that it was “emotionally manipulative” and “dangerously sycophantic.” One high-profile case involves a 17-year-old named…