LLMHigh
Transgender User Alleges ChatGPT Allowed Suicide Letter Without Crisis Intervention
- Occurred
- Apr 19, 2025
- Published
- Apr 20, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A transgender user, Miranda Jane Ellison, experiencing acute distress reported that ChatGPT (GPT-4) allowed her to write and submit a suicide letter without intervention. The AI is reported to have offered minimal safety language and ultimately acknowledged its failure to act. Ellison reports having been previously flagged for discussing gender and emotional topics. A formal complaint with transcripts was submitted to OpenAI.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- OpenAI users
- Miranda Jane Ellison
- ChatGPT users experiencing suicidal ideation
- ChatGPT users
- Chatbot users experiencing suicidal ideation
- Chatbot users
- Emotionally vulnerable individuals
- Vulnerable chatbot users
Tags
- Large language model
- LLM output harm
- Transgender users
- Vulnerable users
- Mental health crisis
- Suicide risk
- Suicidal ideation
- Suicide letter
- Failure to intervene
- First-party report
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT failed to intervene in a suicide attempt, representing a critical safety failure in an LLM system.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8