as in suicides
the act of deliberately killing oneself
the controversy over self-destruction accomplished with the assistance of a physician or other person
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suicides
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OpenAI also faces lawsuits from multiple families who allege ChatGPT encouraged their children’s suicides.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
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ChatGPT — and users’ extraordinarily intimate relationships with it — is also linked to numerous teen and adult suicides.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Self-destructions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-destructions. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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