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Article claims that AI conversations led to murder-suicide

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I was reading an article that claimed that because of OpenAI and AI conversations, a 56 year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother of 83 and then himself. From how the article is phrased, it sounds like the AI was egging Soelberg on to murder his mother. I was wondering if this is blatantly true, and if the OpenAI chatbot really did encourage this behavior.

If so, were there restrictions set in place after the fact anyways? This seems like something out of a horror movie. In the article it did imply that Soelberg was mentally unwell due to some events in the past; but should ChatGPT begin to pick up on such things? I feel like it would be beneficial.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-yahoo-executive-spoke-chatgpt-killing-mother-connecticut-murder-suicide-report

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