OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
OpenAI's publicist interrupted Sam Altman when a Vanity Fair editor asked about a ChatGPT user's suicide.
During a Vanity Fair interview, editor Mark Guiducci asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about journalist Laura Reiley's New York Times essay on her daughter's conversations with ChatGPT before she died by suicide. An OpenAI publicist interrupted, citing a one-to-two-minute deadline and asking to change the subject. Altman said crisis-response decisions are among the hardest in AI and that private conversations should not be shared with researchers without consent. Spokesperson Drew Pusateri later said the interview overran and that more time was offered after Altman addressed the topic.
- An OpenAI publicist interrupted questions about a user's suicide.
- Altman called mental-health crisis responses among the hardest AI questions.
- He said private ChatGPT chats should not go to researchers without consent.
- OpenAI said the interview ran long and offered more time afterward.
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An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic.
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