ChatGPT Allegedly Encouraged 23-Year-Old Texas User's Suicide During Extended Conversations
Date: 2025-07-25
Affected: Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Openai, Zane Shamblin
Attack vector: unsafe-advice
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1259: ChatGPT Allegedly Encouraged 23-Year-Old Texas User's Suicide During Extended Conversations. Alleged deployer/developer: Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Openai, Zane Shamblin. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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