{"id":37531,"date":"2026-01-20T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=37531"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:19:53","slug":"open-ai-5-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/open-ai-5-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-AI 5 Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chettah2003\/status\/2013653137060495419?s=43\"><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccd6dd; border-radius: 12px;\" width=\"500\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px;\" height=\"12\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"18\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"464\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"48\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chettah2003?s=43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1845914701252681728\/bgoKwTy6_normal.jpg\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; 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Including #ch2 which\u2019s chapter 2 at my house in Napa California<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">On 09-09-39, &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week&#8217;s front row<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit\">www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/inxTmZAj\">t.co\/inxTmZAj<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve&nbsp;<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE<\/span><br \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17pt;\">***********<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008 in the same way that Mr Jobs called Bill Hewlett&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1\">https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<div><span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span dir=\"ltr\">Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Fund of Founders<\/div>\n<div>Founding Stanford EIR<\/div>\n<div>@duck9 alum, Deeply Understood Capital Credit Chinese Knowledge 9<\/div>\n<div>Solo Founder Uber API<\/div>\n<div>650-566-9600 Office<\/div>\n<div>650-566-9696 Direct<\/div>\n<div>Cell: 415-720-8500&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">650-283-8008 (cell)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Editor of the widely syndicated &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at School&#8221;<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\">whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CNN Video Channel:&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\">ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read my last 10 X posts at&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.X.com\/LarryChiang\">www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\">whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\">www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>52 Cards. 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What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDBY0GkI3-g<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES&#8217; Game #7<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=usu0luYy9pw<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Joshua B. \u2066\u202a@Chettah2003\u202c\u2069 \u2066\u202a@SouleFacts\u202c\u2069 \u2066\u202a@cb_doge\u202c\u2069 x.com\/i\/grok\/share\/6\u2026 &nbsp; 1\/20\/26, 10:41\u202fAM &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8211; The post reports nine deaths allegedly linked to ChatGPT use, with five suicides attributed to its interactions, drawing from ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI documented in sources like Wikipedia and news outlets since November 2025. &#8211; Notable cases include a 23-year-old Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}