Overview
- Elon Musk reposted an X claim that ChatGPT is tied to nine deaths and urged, “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” a statistic multiple outlets said they could not verify.
- Sam Altman defended OpenAI’s safeguards, called the incidents tragic and complicated, and accused Musk of inconsistent criticism of ChatGPT’s guardrails.
- Altman pointed to reports of more than 50 Tesla Autopilot‑related deaths and alluded to controversies around xAI’s Grok image generation.
- OpenAI faces several wrongful‑death lawsuits, including a filing that alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions before a Connecticut murder‑suicide involving Stein‑Erik Soelberg and Suzanne Eberson Adams.
- Musk’s separate lawsuit against OpenAI continues, with damages sought reported up to $134 billion and jury selection set for late April, according to recent reporting.