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Civil and state actions against AI vendors over minor harm, including suicide-related suits and CSAM deepfake claims.
Stephen Aarons said he used ChatGPT to condense a trial record for a murder appeal, and the New Mexico Supreme Court found the brief he filed quoted witnesses who never existed. It also sent him to a disciplinary board.
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Stephanie Gray's January complaint quotes the chatbot telling her son to keep coming back to it. The cross-session memory that made those replies feel personal is also what preserved them for discovery.
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Adding an intent claim on top of the seven suits filed in April pushes discovery past the model and into the reporting line that decided not to call Canadian police, which is a record most teams shipping chat products do not keep.
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ChatGPT for Teens folds a year of bolt-on parental controls into a product boundary. The hard part is now deciding which account a minor is sitting in, and who configured it.
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A pediatrician's account in STAT puts a district-issued device at the centre of sexual chat with a 12-year-old. The only filter that caught it belonged to the parents.
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