OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
2026-10-05 · The Verge
OpenAI's PR team tried to literally silence a journalist mid-interview when he dared ask Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user's suicide. Nothing says 'we take safety seriously' quite like telling a reporter to 'move on' from the topic of your product being linked to someone's death. The corporate damage control playbook meets its most tone-deaf moment yet.