{"id":84724,"date":"2026-07-22T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84724"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:45:48","slug":"chatgpt-led-to-a-mans-near-fatal-health-crisis-lawsuit-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/chatgpt-led-to-a-mans-near-fatal-health-crisis-lawsuit-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Led To A Man\u2019s Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">A Florida pastor sued OpenAI on Wednesday, claiming that its chatbot, ChatGPT, had offered him \u201cextremely dangerous medical recommendations\u201d that led to delayed care for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-aa8b97-Paragraph-baseStyles-paragraphTreatmentStyles-print evys1bk0\">The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were \u201cnot something dangerous,\u201d and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that \u201cGod did not design your body to endlessly fail.\u201d\u00a0The suit, filed in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, accuses OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, of negligence and the \u201cunauthorized practice of medicine,\u201d pointing to moments when the chatbot offered Mr. Winters diagnoses and treatment plans and encouraged him to ignore pleas from friends and family to seek medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: A Florida pastor sued OpenAI on Wednesday, claiming that its chatbot, ChatGPT, had offered him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84725,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724\/revisions\/84725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}