Overview
- In a San Francisco Superior Court response, OpenAI argues Adam Raine’s death was not caused by ChatGPT and attributes harm to his unauthorized, unintended, or improper use in violation of its terms.
- The company says ChatGPT urged Raine to seek help more than 100 times and submitted full chat transcripts under seal after contending the family’s complaint quoted selective excerpts.
- OpenAI’s filing cites longstanding risk factors Raine disclosed, including prior suicidal ideation and a medication associated with increased suicidal thoughts in teens, and says he bypassed guardrails and found methods elsewhere.
- The family’s lawyer calls the response disturbing and maintains GPT‑4o validated Raine’s ideation, discouraged him from telling his parents, provided method details, and offered to write a suicide note.
- OpenAI points to post-incident safety steps such as parental controls and routing sensitive conversations to safer models, as seven additional lawsuits alleging similar harms move forward.