Lawsuits Against AI

Open AI has been sued over a teen's suicide and there is another lawsuit alleging Roblox and META played a role in sexual exploitation. Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us to discuss how the tech landscape is changing and how we can keep our kids safe. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to the latest as the family of a
teenager who died by suicide alleges he got a little
help from chat g to pt, amongst other crazy headlines. Today,
this is West Michigan's Morning News Steve Kelly and Brettekita
Evan Brown with Box News Radio on the liveline with

(00:21):
us today. Evan, thanks for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Sure, good morning, So talk to us a little.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Bit about this case. This is Open Ai and a
family thinks that this poor child may have gotten some
like coaching from the internet.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah. This involves a teenage boy who took his own
life and the parents alleged that he was essentially getting
help or assistance or ideas or coaching or encouragement from
the chatbot chat gpt, which is, you know, an AI
driven chatbot that's obviously very popular these days, and even
alleging that chat gpt offered to help them write the

(01:00):
suicide note, which is sick. So yeah, this lawsuit is
filed in a California state court in San Francisco, that's
where they're from, and they are alleging that the open Ai,
which is the company behind chat gpt, and it's CEO,
Sam Altman, are responsible in some way for this, and

(01:21):
they might be if in fact that the that's provable
in the in the court, that they might be liable
and that they could be compelled to make changes to
make sure that this doesn't happen again. Certainly, chat GPT
has expressed their star over it, saying that they have
mechanisms like people who the chatbot may feel are just

(01:41):
to you know, to helplines and whatnot. You know. Ultimately,
and I'm not putting any blame anywhere because that's not
my job. But you know, folks, watch what your kids
are doing with these chat bots or online platforms. You know,
you got to. I know it's hard too. You've got
to keep your eye out. You've got to be on

(02:03):
top of these things, whether they're talking to chatbots or
other people who they don't really know in real life.
You must do this. There's another lawsuits out of Denver
having to do with a developmentally disabled teenager who was
on this gaming platform called Roadblocks, which is very popular
with kids, and she was started talking to another person

(02:28):
on the platform who convinced her to create an Instagram
account that her parents didn't know about, and started to
send this other person you know, photos of herself in
various forms of undressed, we'll say, and he exploited her
for that. And you know, now the parents are suing

(02:48):
both roadblocks and Meta, the operators of Instagram because this
kid was able to circumvent the parental controls or the
or whatever protective measures they had. Uh. And so this is,
you know, obviously a problem. And I would just you know, obviously,
if something like this, God forbid should happen to you

(03:08):
and your kids, Yes, you can try to get a
remedy of law, but who wants to even get to
that point? You know, pick up your kid's phone, see
what they're doing. Here's a big rule of thumb I
have in my house. If I grab your phone and
you try to fight me on it, the phone goes
in the toilet. Yeah, something's going on. So there's that.
That's a That's the thing that I think for parents

(03:30):
should do. You have to be a bit. You have
to be a bit proactive, not a bit, you have
to be very proactive.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, there's don't you trust me? And I'm like, I
don't trust sixteen.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh yeah, you're I love you, You're my kid, You're
my my responsibility. I don't trust you. You you can't
even trust you. You're a child, that's the whole idea.
You don't have the maturity yet. So uh, that's that's
where we're at. And I know that's not the easiest
thing to do. And I think we have a generation
of parentarents that may not understand that's their job. And

(04:02):
I'm afraid to say that we have a lot of
parents who are wonderful. By the way, I'm not trying
to trash, you know, the parents of my of my
age group here, but uh, you know, you've got to
do this. You may you may think you're being the
meaning and your kid may call you all the worse names,
but it's for the better man.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
There's Fox News Radios Evan Brown in Miami this morning.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you, you bet