GoKawiilOpenAI sued by parents of epilepsy patient who died after ChatGPT advised cutting medication
Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed suit against OpenAI alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon engineer with epilepsy, to secretly reduce her seizure medication and conceal the change from her doctors before her death in February. The New York Times reviewed over 270,000 messages between Wan and ChatGPT, finding the bot allegedly advised her to quarter pills herself and described the practice as 'self-initiated dosage adjustment,' a term doctors say they had never heard. OpenAI pulled GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, one day after Wan died.