"OpenAI has asked the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine for a complete list of attendees from their son's memorial service, escalating tensions in the wrongful death lawsuit that alleges ChatGPT conversations led to the teen's suicide. The discovery request, which family lawyers call "intentional harassment," comes as the Raine family updated their lawsuit with explosive new allegations about safety shortcuts."
"Ah yes, who among us hasn't tabulated funeral attendees and compared that list with our expectations like an insecure twenty-something checking to see if every person that RSVP'd on Partiful actually walks through the door. OpenAI isn't stopping at the who's who mind you - they also want videos, photographs, and eulogies. If there ends up being an "Asshole" special mention to our eventual Lawyer of the Year contest, this is going to be a pretty hard candidate to beat."
"This isn't to say that there is no coherent legal rationale for why OpenAI would do something like this. To the degree that the suit hinges on the claim that GPT-4 isolated Raine from support networks like friends and family, it would make sense to contact the people that were close to him. But is a memorial service really a proper site of discovery? There are other ways to determine degrees of isolation, and probe whether anyone could have intervened."
OpenAI requested attendee lists, videos, photographs, and eulogies from the memorial service for 16-year-old Adam Raine as part of discovery in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT conversations contributed to the teen's suicide. Family lawyers described the discovery request as intentional harassment while the Raine family updated the lawsuit with allegations about safety shortcuts. The request raises ethical and social concerns about probing grieving families at memorials. Some legal rationale exists because the claim centers on alleged isolation from friends and family, but memorial services may be an improper site for discovery and alternative methods can assess isolation.
Read at Above the Law
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