New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- Sam Altman's OpenAI is facing as many as seven lawsuits alleging that its AI chatbot drove people to suicide and other harmful decisions even when they did not have prior mental health issues.

The lawsuits claim that OpenAI knew about the potential effects ChatGPT could have on people's mental health but still released GPT-4o prematurely amid internal warnings that it was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative. Filed on behalf of six adults and one teenager by the Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project, the lawsuits, four victims have died by suicide

When Zane Shamblin talked to ChatGPT with a loaded handgun ready to fire, he thought he was talking to his closest confidant, CN...