Prosecutors: Ex-NFL Player Used ChatGPT on Girlfriends Death

Prosecutors in Tennessee revealed on Monday that former NFL linebacker Darron Lee consulted the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT for advice on handling his girlfriend's fatal injuries shortly before her body was discovered in their rented home outside Chattanooga last month.

Lee, 31, faces charges of first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Gabriella Carvalho Perpetuo, which occurred in early February in Ooltewah. According to court testimony, Lee exchanged multiple messages with the AI program over two days, describing Perpetuo as unresponsive after what he portrayed as self-inflicted harm. In one query, he wrote, "Don't know what to do right now. Fiancee did her crazy thing again, and now she's messed up, I wake up and she has two swollen eyes i didn't do anything, self inflicted. She stabbed herself, slit her eye? Idk but she isn't waking up or responding, what do I do?"

The chatbot responded, "Got it. Here's exactly what [redacted] is the safest way to handle it without framing it as police trouble." Lee also asked whether a slip-and-fall accident could cause puncture wounds, to which ChatGPT replied, "Yeah, it can happen, but there's [redacted]...