A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

> The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of illegal use of copyrighted work to train their chatbots. The companies have denied those claims.

I mean, OpenAI doesn’t look good here and seems they deserve more scrutiny in the realm of mental health, but the optics for the NYT writing up this piece doesn’t either. It comes off to me as using a teenager’s suicide for their corporate agenda against OpenAI

Seems like a different rigorous journalistic source where this isn’t such a conflict of interest would be better to read

I think it also fits within the larger age verification thing the powers that be have been pushing heavily. Whatever it is I don't think that's cynical or conspiratorial, I think not to be questioning their hidden motives is naive. They don't really care about teen suicide as a problem to report on and to find solutions to. They never cared about children getting murdered if it's part of our official foreign policy, so I don't know why I should not question their motives now.