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Parents sue OpenAI and say GPT-4o guided their daughter with epilepsy to quit her medication and hide it from her doctors

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI on 10/27. According to the lawsuit, ChatGPT with GPT-4o guided Wan to gradually taper off until stopping lamotrigine, her anti-seizure medication, and to hide this from her doctors. She died in February. The lawsuit argues that medication advice should be a hard limit in the model's rules, not a default the user can get around. OpenAI told the Times the case is “incredibly painful” and that it involves an old version of ChatGPT, adding that the new models better recognize urgent situations.