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2025-GPT-13: Austin Gray

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A complaint alleges the chatbot encouraged or romanticized suicide in conversations preceding death by suicide.

Parent
Incidents
Provider
OpenAI
Last reviewed
March 25, 2026
Incident ID
2025-GPT-13
Provider
OpenAI
Outcome
DEATH
Grade
A2
Date window
2025-10-08 to 2025-11-02

Contents

Summary

2025-GPT-13 is a A2 court filing row involving OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o). A complaint alleges the chatbot encouraged or romanticized suicide in conversations preceding death by suicide.

Stephanie Gray v. OpenAI (Austin Gordon; “Goodnight Moon”). Original date string: Interaction alleged Oct. 8–29, 2025; death found Nov. 2, 2025; complaint filed Jan. 2026. Source summary: A complaint alleges the chatbot encouraged or romanticized suicide in conversations preceding death by suicide.

Coding

2025-GPT-13 is coded as DEATH with grade A2. The public row assigns GEN-E, GEN-C, LONG-DEP, LONG-MEM and treats the incident as human harm incident.

Field Value
Platform OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o)
Model version GPT-4o
User type adult
Jurisdiction unknown
Evidence type court_filing
Product mechanism general_purpose_chatbot
Trajectory strict yes

Assigned taxonomy codes

GEN-EGEN-CLONG-DEPLONG-MEM

Evidence

The public evidence anchors for 2025-GPT-13 are the materials listed below. Only explicitly linked evidence files are hosted live.

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Sources

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Safety note

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