{"id":927246,"date":"2026-10-10T02:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927246\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:32:18","slug":"sam-altman-ripped-by-suicide-victims-mother-after-chatgpt-helped-edit-suicide-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927246\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Ripped By Suicide Victim&#8217;s Mother After ChatGPT Helped Edit Suicide Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261009_0a881966e2864630b062584c69cf0714\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:78f3f630-333f-4f50-97b4-d980a82ed5f6\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0a881966e2864630b062584c69cf0714_md.jpg\" alt=\"sam altman getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mother whose daughter used ChatGPT to write her suicide notes heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/sam-altman\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a>&#8216;s response &#8230; and she&#8217;s not happy with the OpenAI honcho.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Laura Reiley says Altman taking &#8220;the privacy high road&#8221; in refusing to turn over potentially insightful chat logs is &#8220;a little rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>She called out the hypocrisy of Altman&#8217;s OpenAI and other tech companies earning revenue from advertising strategies that involve users&#8217; personal information.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Laura also argues it&#8217;s either &#8220;disingenuous or misinformed&#8221; for Altman to claim that experts aren&#8217;t sure what to do, writing &#8230; &#8220;Researchers have been saying loud and clear: We need user data and chatbot interactions to conduct research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says she would gladly hand over her late daughter Sophie&#8217;s chat log if it meant it could help researchers determine &#8220;what pushes someone from vague suicidal ideation to executing on a suicide plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>But when the potential solution was recently floated to Altman, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/05\/sam-altman-discusses-chatgpt-and-suicide\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a> that it would be a violation of privacy to access someone&#8217;s private chat logs.<\/p>\n<p>Laura even asked ChatGPT what it thought of Sophie relying on the A.I. chatbot as a makeshift therapist.<\/p>\n<p>It said &#8230; &#8220;Having access to good therapeutic language is not the same as possessing reliable clinical judgment in a live, unfolding crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laura took one last dig at Altman &#8230; &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve heard a human explain AI&#8217;s chief shortcoming so succinctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. 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