Woman Dies After Following Medical Advice Provided By ChatGPT?

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Woman dies after following medical advice provided by ChatGPT, the family of a 31-year-old Seattle woman who died from a catastrophic seizure. He's suing OpenAI after the woman followed medical advice from ChatGPT, urging her to stop taking her epilepsy medication. I doubt that's how it went down. The Daily Wire reports that Bowen Wan had been consulting Chet GPT in the weeks leading up to her death about ways to wean herself off her medication without her doctor's knowledge. So, Chet GPT did not urge her to do anything. She asked it how to do something, and there's a big difference in the two. Obviously, she should have consulted with her physician. Juan had lived with epilepsy for more than a decade and successfully managed it with prescription medication. However, after becoming concerned about the side effects she was suffering, she turned to ChatGPT 4.0 for advice on winning herself off the drugs, according to reports. The New York Times reported that Juan's chat logs show that ChatGPT provided a week-by-week To reduce her 400mg daily dose down to zero. The lawsuit alleges that when Juan expressed distrust of her doctors, the chatbot validated her and further praised her for hiding the tapering plan from her primary care provider, labeling it a solid avoidance strategy. Well, that sounds pretty crazy to me. According to the Daily Wire, days before her death, she appeared to have a seizure while on the phone with her father, and she later asked the bot, maybe it's not a major issue. The bot's response was supposedly, there's no need to worry too much about your health. Juan died in her Seattle apartment on February 20, 2006, and the official cause of death was Sudden Unexpected Death and Epilepsy, or SUDEP. The lawsuit that names OpenAI and CEO Sam Alton alleges that the company bypassed built-in safety guardrails and failed to prevent the AI from dispensing unlicensed hazardous medical instructions. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri Call the situation heartbroken and noted. While chat GPT is not a substitute for medical care, we believe AI can play a large role in helping people make sense of their health information, navigate insurance and complex health care systems, and prepare for appointments with medical professionals. This case will be very important and should set a precedence for future similar situations. ChatGPT did not force her to do a thing. She approached the AI chatbot and asked it about weaning from what we can tell here. I guess we'd really have to see all of the conversations before we can give any really valid opinions. However, I agree this is a tragic situation for all involved. We do need some safety rails on these open language AI models. We should have seen something like this coming. Let me know what you think in the comments below and make sure to share and give us a thumbs up. God bless you all.