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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
Source: The Verge · Published

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair 's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair 's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic. The interruption came shortly after Guiducci asked Altman if he knew who Laura Reiley is, a journalist who wrote an essay for The New York Times about her daughter's conversations with ChatGPT before she took her own life.
"Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself-" Gu … Read the full story at The Verge.
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