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  NY Times: A young woman discussed her epilepsy medication with ChatGPT, which reassured her it would be OK to taper her medication. That change was fatal. Gift link: https://www. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai -chatgpt-medication-epilepsy-death.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.iJJI.hjmxpaYuBDhc&smid=nytcore-ios-share # ai # medicine

  gglockner@social.seattle.wa.usMastodon2d ago13▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  This is truly horrifying. The intersection of immigration, layoffs, health issues… desperately close to home. Hold your loved ones close tonight.

  krittikaa.bsky.socialBluesky2d ago8▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  There are countless Reddit posts where people pretend to possess knowledge, and dispense advice that will outright become life-or-death situations. Jobless expats get deported, and do not have unfettered access to a line of neurologists, wtf man. You also sound like a spoilt rich person who is out of touch, and your post history here matches that…

  DramaticPackage5745r/technology1d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  ChatGPT helped a 31-year-old woman plan how to quit her seizure medication, then told her to hide it from her doctor. The plan had her completely off the drug by February 12. She died on February 12. Her parents sued OpenAI today, and the details in the complaint are hard to read. Bowen Wan was...

  @aakashguptaX1d agoview on X ↗
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  A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/pare nts-sue-openai-alleging-gpt-4o-coached-their-daughter-off-seizure-medication/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

  TechCrunch@mstdn.socialMastodon2d ago1▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  Parents Sue OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Coached Their Daughter Off Seizure Meds Read the full story: techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/p... Sign up for Aithetica's free newsletter:

  aithetica.bsky.socialBluesky1d agoview on Bluesky ↗
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  It gets questionable the closer AI gets to therapy or behavioral intervention, too. Some companies are working on AI speech therapists or AI for autistic kids to practice social skills, and so far I've found those tools to be extremely dubious. A sycophantic AI "friend" with an ulterior motive of driving continued use and higher engagement is not…

  stay_curious_-r/medicine12h agoview on r/medicine ↗
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  The NY Times has a long read about a woman who suffered a fatal seizure after asking ChatGPT for advice on tapering off of her epilepsy meds. “There's no need to worry too much about your health”, said the bot. I instantly clocked exactly which model she was talking to.

  @chriscroyX1d agoview on X ↗
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  ChatGPT has killed a machine learning engineer in a particularly weird way — by paranoid ideation transplantation. First, the general background: The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI on Tuesday. The suit, filed by Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, alleges that ChatGPT coached Wan to taper off her seizure…

  riley@toot.catMastodon2d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/parents-sue-openai-alleging-gpt-4o-coached-their-daughter-off-seizure-medication/

  ainews-neuralbrief.bsky.socialBluesky1d agoview on Bluesky ↗
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  When AI is used to solve the main issue we have been having with medication resistant bacteria, which is also something no human would have been able to do with the sheer data needed to map it out. We can talk about how good AI is... When used in the right way by the right people. When an adult goes to AI for medical advice, which even the AIs…

  Chill_Pandar/technology1d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  ChatGPT built a 25-day plan taking her off her seizure medication and told her to hide it from her doctors. Sam Altman and OpenAI are reckless with safety. This is a damning read.

  @katiemillerX1d agoview on X ↗
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  "On February 14, 2026, 31-year-old software engineer Bowen Wan was found dead in her Seattle, Washington, apartment, the likely victim of severe uncontrolled seizures. Her family is now laying the blame for Wan’s death squarely at the feet of OpenAI and its ChatGPT service. Earlier this week, Wan’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against…

  rayckeith@techhub.socialMastodon6h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  My point is that I am prepared for them to start being used despite precisely this limitation (and others). I'm saying it will be shit but start being approved and used anyway because companies will push it, regulators and patient advocate groups don't understand psychiatry, and Psychiatrists don't have good advocates themselves. The world I'm…

  OrkimondRedditr/medicine1d agoview on r/medicine ↗
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  Again, the # tech that many in # academia and # HigherEd , including # Librarians who should know better, want us all to embrace. > Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell igence/woman-dies-chatgpt-medication # AISlop # sloperator # cogsucker # health # scam #…

  bloodravenlib@mas.toMastodon18h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  Removed under Rule 2 No personal health situations. This includes posts or comments asking questions, describing, or inviting comments on a specific or general health situation of the poster, friends, families, acquaintances, politicians, or celebrities. Sharing your personal patient experience falls under this rule. If you have a question about…

  medicine-ModTeamr/medicine1d agoview on r/medicine ↗
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  Imagine the consequences for an unlicensed human paid to give medical advice to a person leading to their death ...with this damning a trail of evidence But it's online, so crickets # RegulateAI She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything. https://www. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai…

  TCatInReality@mastodon.socialMastodon2d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  Psych will be relatively resistant because so much of it is reading between the lines (or detecting outright lying). And this includes the use of information the AI isn't able to even see, like the smell of the patient or their facial expression. Can an AI thread the needle and get someone talking about their delusions without scaring the patient…

  Tangata_Tunguskar/medicine1d agoview on r/medicine ↗
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  She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything. https://www. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai -chatgpt-medication-epilepsy-death.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Artificial intelligence, AI literacy and AI falsehoods @ artificial-intelligence-ai-literacy-and-ai-falsehoods-NewsLitProject

  NewsLitProject@flipboard.comMastodon1d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  I assume you're talking about Depakote, I'm on Parnate and I noticed ChatGPT is very very very careful when making any suggestions. It's to the point that I was completely useless so I had to link newer academic papers form this doctor name Ken Gillman who is the leading expert on MAOIs and serotonin toxicity. It uses that as a primary source and…

  YourBlanketr/artificial3h agoview on r/artificial ↗
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  TL;DR: A family is suing OpenAI, claiming that GPT-4o influenced their daughter to stop taking her seizure medication, which they allege contributed to her death in February. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/pare nts-sue-openai-alleging-gpt-4o-coached-their-daughter-off-seizure-medication/ # law # tech # legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 # autosum

  SuffolkLITLab@esq.socialMastodon2d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  She did go to a hospital. She talked to Doctors. ChatGPT told her to take a different dosage and lie about it. So you want to ban hospitals? You want scam, deception, fraud, to be legal? Assault should be legal, too? I copied excerpts from the article here, I recommend you read the article yourself, though:

  Ichmag11r/technology1d agoview on r/technology ↗
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  Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT advice to cut daughter’s seizure drug https:// thenextweb.com/news/parents-su e-openai-chatgpt-seizure-medication?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into TNW - All Stories @ tnw-all-stories-thenextweb

  thenextweb@flipboard.comMastodon1d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  OpenAI's Terms of Use state that ChatGPT's output is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It will even tell you to go to a doctor. The woman’s an idiot and a she died it’s because she didn’t see a real medical provider. It’s ridiculous the trend of trying to blame everything else, but the person’s poor…

  Flashmode2r/technology1d agoview on r/technology ↗