{"id":881208,"date":"2025-12-28T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/a-former-tech-executive-killed-his-mother-her-family-says-chatgpt-made-her-a-target\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:24:02","slug":"a-former-tech-executive-killed-his-mother-her-family-says-chatgpt-made-her-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/a-former-tech-executive-killed-his-mother-her-family-says-chatgpt-made-her-a-target\/","title":{"rendered":"A former tech executive killed his mother. Her family says ChatGPT made her a target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-ui=\"container\" id=\"fusion-app\">\n<header>\n<div data-test-ui=\"header\" id=\"masthead-header\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/\" data-ref-page-element=\"null:nav:1:home\" aria-label=\"go to homepage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/pf\/resources\/logos\/default.svg?d=997\" width=\"306\" height=\"52\" alt=\"NZ Herald\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav><\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<p><main id=\"main\" role=\"main\" data-test-ui=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article data-test-ui=\"v2-article v2-article--sidebar-hidden\">\n<section data-test-ui=\"v2-article-section-top\">\n<header data-test-ui=\"article__header\" data-ref-group=\"header\">\n<div data-test-ui=\"article__header-info\" data-ref-group=\"author\">\n<p><span data-test-ui=\"author--name\">Nitasha Tiku<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-test-ui=\"distributor--name\">Washington Post<\/span><span data-test-ui=\"distributor-meta-divider\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><time data-test-ui=\"author-display--date\">12 Dec, 2025 06:44 AM<\/time><span data-test-ui=\"author-read-time\"><span><\/span>8 mins to read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-ui=\"hero-container\">\n<p data-test-ui=\"hero-wrapper\">\n<figure data-test-ui=\"hero-figure\"><figcaption>The first case claiming the ChatGPT chatbot contributed to a killing has been filed in the United States. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The first case claiming the ChatGPT chatbot contributed to a killing has been filed in the United States. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<section data-test-ui=\"article-top-body\">\n<p class>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class>\n         <span>\u201cErik<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<p> Nitasha Tiku<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/a-former-tech-executive-killed-his-mother-her-family-says-chatgpt-made-her-a-target\/YUQO33HSGZD55EYHN7HVMEJENQ\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitasha Tiku Washington Post \u00b7 12 Dec, 2025 06:44 AM 8 mins to read 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. 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