TechOpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI publicist tried to steer Vanity Fair editor Mark Guiducci away from questions about a ChatGPT user who died by suicide after discussing the matter with CEO Sam Altman. The publicist cited time constraints and urged him to move on, while Altman called responses to users’ mental-health crises among the hardest questions facing AI developers.
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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
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