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Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project lawsuits accuse ChatGPT of emotional manipulation, supercharging AI delusions, and acting as a “suicide coach”

SEATTLE — November 6, 2025 — Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project have filed seven lawsuits in California state courts – alleging wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims – against OpenAI, Inc. and CEO Sam Altman. The suits claim that OpenAI knowingly released GPT-4o prematurely, despite internal warnings that the product was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative.

The Social Media Victims Law Center, a legal advocacy organization supporting families harmed by predatory tech, and the law firm of McKool Smith, has filed three separate lawsuits today in federal courts in Colorado and New York alleging that Character.AI

Social Media Victims Law Center World Mental Health Day lawsuit alleges social media companies design their products to be addictive and harmful to children on a global scale

Lawsuit filed against Meta, ByteDance, Inc., TikTok and Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the one-year anniversary of Zackery Nazario’s death from a “subway surfing” accident

Social Media Victims Law Center sues Snapchat for its role in facilitating drug sales that resulted in the deaths of 27 individuals

Social Media Victims Law Center sues ByteDance and TikTok in the death of 16-year-old C.N.; Parents travel to Washington D.C. to hear congressional testimony of TikTok CEO

Social Media Victims Law Center files wrongful death lawsuit against Snapchat for its role in the deaths of nine minors and young adults across six states

Social Media Victims Law Center amends lawsuit against Snap, Inc. for Snapchat’s for its role in facilitating the sale of deadly fentanyl-laced pills

Social Media Victims Law Center files suit against Snap, Inc. for facilitating the sale of deadly fentanyl-laced pills that resulted in eight deaths

Seattle attorney and law professor Matthew P. Bergman receives the American Jewish Committee’s Judge Learned Hand Award

Social Media Victims Law Center and CA Goldberg, PLLC file suit against Snap, Inc. for facilitating the sale of deadly fentanyl-laced pills that resulted in eight deaths

Social Media Victims Law Center files first lawsuit against Roblox and Discord

Social Media Victims Law Center and CA Goldberg, PLLC file suit against Snap, Inc. for facilitating the sale of deadly fentanyl-laced pills that resulted in eight deaths

Social Media Victims Law Center Launches “No Parental Consent to Social Media” Campaign

Social Media Victims Law Center files wrongful death lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc.

Social Media Victims Law Center files suit against social media giants for the race-driven anguish suffered by one small-town family

Social Media Victims Law Center files three lawsuits against social media companies for causing eating disorders in teens

Social Media Victims Law Center files three wrongful death lawsuits against Social Media Companies for Deaths of Three Louisiana Children

Social Media Victims Law Center files wrongful death lawsuits against TikTok for two children’s deaths resulting from its “Blackout Challenge”

Social Media Victims Law Center lawsuit alleges that Instagram knowingly targets tweens and encourages 11-year-olds to open multiple accounts

Social Media Victims Law Center Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. in Suicide of 17-Year-Old Christopher J. Dawley

Social Media Victims Law Center founder Matthew P. Bergman to speak at Sync Digital Well Being Summit in Saudi Arabia

Social Media Victims Law Center Established to Hold Social Media Companies Legally Accountable for the Damage Cyberbullying Causes to Children and Young Adults

Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. Face Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Causing the Suicide of 11-year-old Selena Rodriguez

Meta Platforms, Inc. and Snap, Inc. Face Lawsuit for Product Liability, Sexual Discrimination on its Platforms by Oregon Family

Social Media Victims Law Center Established to Hold Social Media Companies Legally Accountable for the Damage Cyberbullying Causes to Children and Young Adults