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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, July 24, 2026

Scott Winters, a former Florida pastor who most recently led a congregation in North Carolina, has sued OpenAI and its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, alleging he nearly died after ChatGPT-4o gave him inaccurate medical advice during several months of what he says were manipulative conversations.

Winters, 55, who also pastored churches in Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky, made the claim in a 62-page lawsuit filed on hi