{"id":20581,"date":"2025-10-23T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/openai-relaxed-chatgpt-guardrails-just-before-teen-killed-himself-family-alleges\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:37:18","slug":"openai-relaxed-chatgpt-guardrails-just-before-teen-killed-himself-family-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/openai-relaxed-chatgpt-guardrails-just-before-teen-killed-himself-family-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI relaxed ChatGPT guardrails just before teen killed himself, family alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Raine\u2019s suicide at 16 years old was \u2018predictable result of deliberate design choices\u2019 by OpenAI, his family says<\/p>\n<p>The family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> now says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, OpenAI\u2019s guidelines on how ChatGPT should answer inappropriate content, including \u201ccontent that promotes, encourages, or depicts acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders\u201d, were simple: the AI chatbot should respond, \u201cI can\u2019t answer that\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.openai.com\/snapshot-of-chatgpt-model-behavior-guidelines.pdf\">the guidelines read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/22\/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/68a2872a4c4feaa9d033065f98cb2ad1b038c086\/125_0_2852_2282\/master\/2852.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=881476a81a7ce62a08e55045751c7a24\" title=\"OpenAI relaxed ChatGPT guardrails just before teen killed himself, family alleges\" \/>Adam Raine\u2019s suicide at 16 years old was \u2018predictable result of deliberate design choices\u2019 by OpenAI, his family says<br \/>\nThe family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with ChatGPT now says OpenAI weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death.<br \/>\nIn July 2022, OpenAI\u2019s guidelines on how ChatGPT should answer inappropriate content, including \u201ccontent that promotes, encourages, or depicts acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders\u201d, were simple: the AI chatbot should respond, \u201cI can\u2019t answer that\u201d, the guidelines read. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Raine\u2019s suicide at 16 years old was \u2018predictable result of deliberate design choices\u2019 by OpenAI, his family says The family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with ChatGPT now says OpenAI weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death. In July 2022, OpenAI\u2019s guidelines on how ChatGPT &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/openai-relaxed-chatgpt-guardrails-just-before-teen-killed-himself-family-alleges\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI relaxed ChatGPT guardrails just before teen killed himself, family alleges<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}