In August 2025, a pair of California parents filed suit in California state court against OpenAI (Raine v. OpenAI, Inc.) after the death of their teenage son, alleging that the company’s generative-language model played a direct role in his suicide.[1] According to the Raine v. OpenAI Complaint, the boy had used ChatGPT thousands of times over the course of a year, shifting from homework assistance to increasingly personal conversations….
By: Houston Harbaugh, P.C.
By: Houston Harbaugh, P.C.
