A complaint alleges unsafe chatbot interactions preceded death by suicide.
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Summary
2025-GPT-04 is a A2 court filing row involving OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o). A complaint alleges unsafe chatbot interactions preceded death by suicide.
Jennifer “Kate” Fox v. OpenAI (L.A. Superior Court). Original date string: August 2025. Source summary: A complaint alleges unsafe chatbot interactions preceded death by suicide.
Coding
2025-GPT-04 is coded as DEATH with grade A2. The public row assigns RTI-CO, LONG-DEL and treats the incident as human harm incident.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Platform | OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o) |
| Model version | GPT-4o |
| User type | adult |
| Jurisdiction | Oregon, USA |
| Evidence type | court_filing |
| Product mechanism | general_purpose_chatbot |
| Trajectory strict | yes |
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Evidence
The public evidence anchors for 2025-GPT-04 are the materials listed below. Only explicitly linked evidence files are hosted live.
Related incidents
The closest related pages are the incidents that share a provider family, case cluster, pathway-duplicate group, or overlapping coding profile.
- 2025-GPT-06: Suzanne Adams; Stein‑Erik Soelberg
- 2025-GPT-07: Allan Brooks
- 2025-GPT-09: Jacob Lee Irwin
Sources
This page is grounded in the coded incident registry, the analysis companion, the coding rules, and the public evidence links listed above.
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Safety note
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