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title: "Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/lawsuit-the-parents-of-a-31-year-old-say-openais-gpt-4o-guided-her-cc59f256
published: 2026-10-28T10:05:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
---

# Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-28 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/lawsuit-the-parents-of-a-31-year-old-say-openais-gpt-4o-guided-her-cc59f256

Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times : Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February — The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors. — 1.3k

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261028/p12#a261028p12)

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