According to filings at the superior court of the state of California on Tuesday, OpenAI said that “to the extent that any ‘cause’ can be attributed to this tragic event” Raine’s “injuries and harm were caused or contributed to, directly and proximately, in whole or in part, by [his] misuse, unauthorised use, unintended use, unforeseeable use, and/or improper use of ChatGPT”.
It said that its terms of use prohibited asking ChatGPT for advice about self-harm and highlighted a limitation of liability provision that states “you will not rely on output as a sole source of truth or factual information”.
I did an experiment as part of a research thing recently where I asked ChatGPT to reproduce copyrighted works. It would not do it. Full stop. It fought me a little bit on suicide, but it took only minutes for it to tell me what to buy, where I might find it, and what to do with it. Weird how they can control some things it says and not others. It’s almost like they don’t care unless a billionaire is threatening them.