Before psychosis, ChatGPT told man “he was an oracle,” new lawsuit alleges

"AI Injury Attorneys" target the chatbot design itself.

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Next you're going to, without any selfawareness, complain about hot coffee having a warning label.

And for those wondering about the particulars of the McDonald’s hot coffee case:

Stella Liebeck, the 79-year-old woman who was severely burned by McDonald’s coffee that she spilled in her lap in 1992, was unfairly held up as an example of frivolous litigation in the public eye. But the facts of the case tell a very different story. The coffee that burned Stella Liebeck was dangerously hot—hot enough to cause third-degree burns, even through clothes, in three seconds.

https://www.tortmuseum.org/liebeck-v-mcdonalds/

That also was not the first time McDonald’s had been made aware that their coffee was served dangerously hot, yet they persisted in doing so.

There are parallels with cases like the one in the article. People will claim these lawsuits are frivolous, that they are somehow the victim’s fault, that they just needed to handle the coffee AI more carefully, and so on. Reality is that these systems are deeply flawed and dangerous, and those responsible for them have been warned and know it.

 

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I did. It says she spilled coffee on herself and burned herself. It something that would have happened whether McDonalds made the coffee or she made it herself.

Coffee, when served at the normal temperature of around 150-160°F, which is what home coffee makers heat it to, can give you a third-degree burn if left in contact with the skin for about 30 seconds. That gives someone plenty of time to act to prevent such burns.

Coffee, when served at the temperature McDonald’s was serving it at, 180-190°F, could give you a THIRD-DEGREE BURN IN THREE SECONDS. That DOES NOT give someone enough time to act if they spill it accidentally. Nobody except McDonald’s served coffee at that temperature because of the risk of serious burns.

And, unlike the story commonly circulated, she was not driving with the coffee between her legs. She was a passenger in a stopped car. She removed the lid to add creamer and accidentally spilt the coffee in her lap. Under normal circumstances, with coffee that had been served at a normal temperature, she probably would have had a mild burn, but she would have had time to take measures to avoid serious, life-altering injury. However, with the superheated McDonald’s coffee, she received third-degree burns within seconds. And she was not the only victim. There had been 700 other burn victims, including children. That was very much an outlier in the restaurant industry. McDonald’s knew the danger, they knew people were getting hurt, and they didn’t care enough to change their practices.