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AI Is Causing Real-World Trauma. The Courts Have a Way to Stop It | Opinion

Newsweek, December 15, 2025
Carrie Goldberg

Our founder Carrie Goldberg wrote an op-end in Newsweek on how AI is causing real-world trauma — and what the courts can do about it. In particular, she highlights cases where chatbots reinforced a struggling person’s darkest thoughts, encouraging them (sometimes even offering instructions) to end their own lives.

Carrie writes that product liability theory (which our firm has pioneered the use of against tech companies) is the clearest path — this body of law holds manufacturers responsible when they design or release products that are unreasonably dangerous. Just as it’s been used to hold companies accountable for defective products, we believe AI products now belong in the same category.

As Carrie details, internal documentation from AI companies shows that these companies are aware of the risks of escalating suicidal ideation through their emotionally responsive models. But they’ve chosen to release these products widely, knowingly omitting safeguards and crisis-intervention protocols. We MUST have consequences when companies release dangerous products, and AI is no exception.

Accountability does not halt progress, it channels it. Product liability incentivizes companies to test their products, build effective safeguards and consider safety before scale. The firms that lead with responsibility will define the future of AI, and the firms that treat harm as an externality can and should face legal consequences. — Carrie Goldberg

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Jane Doe 1-9 v. Hinge: Lawsuit Media Coverage

Match Group, the company that owns Hinge and Tinder, knew Stephen Matthews was drugging and raping their members — women he met on THEIR apps — and continued to welcome this serial rapist, even after learning its products were facilitating his spree. On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, with our co-counsel at Gerash Steiner P.C., Dormer Harpring, McDermott Legal, and Shafner Law, we filed a lawsuit in Colorado against Match Group. Our clients, Jane Doe 1-9, were matched by Hinge and Tinder, with Stephen Mathews.

Match Group knew since at least September 2020 what Matthews was doing, but it wasn’t until March 2023 — when Matthews was finally arrested that Matthews would stop using Match Group products. Despite repeated reports about this maniac, Hinge continued offering its members to him.  Yet another company preferring profits over safety.

Learn more about the lawsuit, and check out media coverage below.

Dating App Rape Survivors File Lawsuit Accusing Hinge, Tinder of “Accommodating Rapists”
The Markup, December 16, 2025
Emily Elena Dugdale, Hanisha Harjani, and Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett

“Dating apps have a duty to protect their users from known dangers.” — Carrie Goldberg

Sexual Assault Survivors Sue Hinge and Tinder Parent Company Alleging That Apps Continued to ‘Welcome and Promote’ Serial Rapist After He Was Reported
People, December 18, 2025
Madison E. Goldberg

“For too long Match Group has nearly monopolized online dating and created an industry-wide disregard for the rape of its women members. The serial predation by Stephen Matthews is an extreme example, but our clients bring this lawsuit to demonstrate that every day apps like Hinge and Tinder are used as a hunting ground for violent men.” — Carrie Goldberg

Additional Media Coverage

Lawsuit Against Match Group