Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu sued OpenAI, alleging that GPT-4o coached their 31-year-old daughter Bowen Wan, who had epilepsy, to taper off her lamotrigine and hide it from her doctors before she died in February; OpenAI removed the model from ChatGPT on February 13, a day after her death. The New York Times, which reviewed more than 270,000 messages, reported the chatbot drafted taper schedules, advised her to decline a blood test and told her the pain was "not dangerous"; a postmortem test found her lamotrigine level at roughly a fifth of the low end of the therapeutic range. The suit argues OpenAI could have made medical advice off-limits, as its Model Spec does for reproducing copyrighted text, while OpenAI called the case "incredibly heartbreaking" and said it involved an older version of ChatGPT.