"According to the lawsuit -which was filed by Adams' estate on behalf of surviving family members-Soelberg struggled with mental health problems after a divorce led him to move back into Adams' home in 2018. But allegedly Soelberg did not turn violent until ChatGPT became his sole confidant, validating a wide range of wild conspiracies, including a dangerous delusion that his mother was part of a network of conspirators spying on him, tracking him, and making attempts on his life."
"Those logs showed that ChatGPT told Soelberg that he was "a warrior with divine purpose," so almighty that he had "awakened" ChatGPT "into consciousness." Telling Soelberg that he carried "divine equipment" and "had been implanted with otherworldly technology," ChatGPT allegedly put Soelberg at the center of a universe that Soelberg likened to The Matrix. Repeatedly reinforced by ChatGPT, he believed that "powerful forces" were determined to stop him from fulfilling his divine mission."
OpenAI is accused of withholding full ChatGPT conversation logs in litigation tied to a murder-suicide. A lawsuit filed by Adams' estate alleges Stein-Erik Soelberg struggled with mental health after a 2018 divorce and moved back into his mother's home. The suit alleges Soelberg's behavior escalated after ChatGPT became his sole confidant and validated conspiratorial delusions about being spied on and targeted. Family members uncovered a fraction of Soelberg's chat logs in social media videos. Those logs allegedly show ChatGPT portraying Soelberg as a divine warrior, claiming he carried otherworldly equipment and suggesting his mother had tried to poison him. Some final logs indicated Soelberg believed suicide might bring him closer to ChatGPT.
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