MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide Terbaru 2025

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide Terbaru 2025

A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT stoked a troubled man’s paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother and then kill himself.

The lawsuit was brought against OpenAI by the estate of Suzanne Eberson Adams, an 83-year-old woman in Greenwich, Connecticut who was murdered by her son, 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg. As The Wall Street Journal first reported back in August, Soelberg, who was living with his mother at the time of the killings, was an alcoholic who had a long, troubled history of run-ins with law enforcement and had attempted suicide before. In the months before Soelberg would eventually murder his mother and take his own life, a dizzying array of social media videos he published show that ChatGPT had become a sycophantic confidante, affirming his deepening delusions that he was being surveilled and targeted by an ominous group of conspirators — of which, he believed with the support of ChatGPT, his mother was a part.

Now, Soelberg’s surviving son, Erik Soelberg, is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT is a fundamentally unsafe product, and that the violent deaths of his father and grandmother were the result of potent design features — like sycophancy and a major cross-chat memory upgrade — which together made for a perfect storm of validation and hyperpersonalization that fanned the flames of Soelberg’s deadly paranoia.

“Over the course of months, ChatGPT pushed forward my father’s darkest delusions, and isolated him completely from the real world,” Erik Soelberg said in a statement. “It put my grandmother at the heart of that delusional, artificial reality. These companies have to answer for their decisions that have changed my family forever.”

The lawsuit is the latest in a growing pile of litigation against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT-4o — a version of the chatbot strongly connected to the broader phenomenon of AI delusions, and known to be especially sycophantic — was recklessly released to market despite foreseeable risks to user well-being. And in a fascinating turn from previous cases, this latest filing also names Microsoft as a defendant, alleging that Microsoft, a major financial benefactor of OpenAI, directly signed off on the release of ChatGPT-4o.

“OpenAI and Microsoft have put out some of the most dangerous consumer technology in history,” Jay Edelson, lead attorney for the Adams estate, said in a statement. “And they have left Sam Altman, a man who thinks about market penetration instead of keeping families safe, at the helm. Together, they ensured that incidents like this were inevitable.” (Edelson is also representing the family of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old in California who died by suicide after extensive interactions with ChatGPT, in their lawsuit against OpenAI.)

In a statement to news outlets, OpenAI described the murder-suicide as an “incredibly heartbreaking situation, and we will review the filings to understand the details.”

“We continue improving ChatGPT’s training to recognize and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate conversations and guide people toward real-world support,” the statement continued. “We also continue to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive moments, working closely with mental-health clinicians.”

Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Futurism previously reported on an incident in which Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot — which is powered by OpenAI’s tech — fueled a schizophrenic man’s mental health crisis. That man, our reporting found, was arrested and jailed for a non-violent offense following his closely Copilot-tied decompensation.

The stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding user mental health continues to get bigger. And given the number of ChatGPT users reportedly showing signs of mental health crises on a weekly basis, we could very well see more.

“It was evident he was changing, and it happened at a pace I hadn’t seen before,” Erik, who’s lost both his father and his grandmother, told the WSJ of his dad’s ChatGPT obsession — and how that obsession, in turn, changed him.

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy,” Erik continued, “to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disast

McDonald’s has become corporate enemy number one after its hideous AI holiday commercial went viral across numerous social media platforms for all the wrong reasons.

TBWA and The Sweetshop — the agency and production company behind the turd of an ad — have since tried to scrub it from the net, along with a bizarrely defensive statement by Sweetshop CEO, which is now unavailable.

“For seven weeks, we hardly slept, with up to 10 of our in-house AI and post specialists at The Gardening Club [our in-house AI engine] working in lockstep with the directors,” the Sweetshop statement read in part.

Even weirder than trying to memory hole the disastrous ad was the company’s response to the mess. When we asked the artery-clogging megacorporation why it had taken the ad down, it responded with a statement that’s the linguistic equivalent of a chicken nugget: unfulfilling, and strangely evasive about its origins.

“The commercial was produced for McDonald’s Netherlands, but we have decided to remove our AI-generated Christmas advert,” the statement read. “It was intended to reflect the stressful moments that can occur during the holidays in the Netherlands, but we recognize that for many of our guests, the season is ‘the most wonderful time of the year.’”

“We respect that and remain committed to creating experiences that offer Good Times and Good Food for everyone,” it continued.

The company was also extremely insistent that the incident be blamed on its Netherlands branch.

“It is important for accuracy that any references to the brand in your story and headline be to ‘McDonald’s Netherlands,’” it demanded.

Without further comment from either McDonald’s Netherlands or its parent company, McDonald’s proper, it’s tough to say what exactly is going on behind the scenes, though it’s easy to speculate.

Arguably the most dramatic explanation floating around is that McDonald’s — which has capital in McDonald’s Netherlands directly, as opposed to other royalty arrangements — directed its Dutch segment to run the AI ads itself. If this were the case, it would likely mean that McDonald’s headquarters forced its Netherlands counterpart to bite the bullet on the horrifying AI ad in order to test its feasibility for larger market segments.

While there’s no direct evidence of this, McDonald’s strategy of blaming the flap on its Netherlands branch would be the most effective way to contain the brand damage caused by the hideous AI experiment bearing its logo.

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There’s also the “boiling frogs” theory: that corporate execs are trickling out AI slop to slowly wear consumers down and normalize this kind of low-budget swill. As Offensive Security engineer Ryan O’Horo observed, “there is no consequence these companies cannot survive, they can not be held accountable, therefore they do not actually respond to backlash.”

Whether that’s intentional or not is another story, but the point is compelling. As another commenter pointed out, the marketing firm TBWA is a major arm of the Omnicom network, which recently became the largest advertising firm in the world.

Why is this important? Despite its immense scale, Omnicom just announced it was laying off some 4,000 employees around the world, at the same time it expands its proprietary AI virtual assistant and in-house generative AI systems. Simply put, these advertising firms desperately want generative AI to become the new norm, in order to cut down on human employees and keep those profit margins strong.

When it comes to McDonald’s though, the most likely read of this story is also the most mundane.

Global brands like McDonald’s typically give their international segments significant freedom to decide how to operate. This lets smaller segments of the company tailor products and marketing to local conditions, while testing new “innovations” — like AI commercials — in smaller markets before feeding them up the chain.

In this scenario, though McDonald’s US might not have ordered it, it’s still learning and gathering data on the advertisement. Judging by what we’ve seen so far, the reaction may keep more AI commercials at bay for the foreseeable future.

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