Nitasha Tiku

Washington Post·

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The first case claiming the ChatGPT chatbot contributed to a killing has been filed in the United States. Photo / Getty Images

The first case claiming the ChatGPT chatbot contributed to a killing has been filed in the United States. Photo / Getty Images

When Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former technology executive with a history of mental health struggles, told ChatGPT the printer in his mother’s home office might be a surveillance device used to spy on him, the chatbot agreed, according to a YouTube video he posted of the conversation in July.

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