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American teenager who used ChatGPT and tragically died by suicide in April 2025.

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True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

The Rain family has started the Adam Rain Foundation in Adam's honor.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

Of course, this whole statement was not satisfactory to the Raines family or pretty much anyone that heard it and who knew Adam's case or any other cases like his.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

While these safeguards work best in common short exchanges, we've learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model's safety training may degrade.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

They said that they have safeguarding protocols to prevent conversations like the ones Adam had with ChatGPT, but some of those safeguards they have obviously didn't work.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

In a statement, they expressed their sympathies to the Rain family, saying that they're reviewing the lawsuit.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

As news of Adam's death was coming out, people wanted answers from OpenAI.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
He Told AI his Dark Secrets... It Ended His Life: How ChatGPT Drove Teen to his TRAGIC Demise

are very proud of the safety track record lawyers for the rain family argued the bots human-like responses and validation pose a dangerous environment for minors with the lawsuit the rains want to enact laws to regulate how ai companies operate they want open ai to implement age verification for all users as well as parental controls for minors