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I'm of two minds about this.
Part of me wanted to blithely reply that "nothing of value was lost"; However, it's undeniable that this is a societal problem and this person is a victim every bit as much as someone who gets injured in a Tesla because it decides to run a red light and slam into a tree after a bad software update.
These products are built to be manipulative and harmful in the long-term, and by rights, should be regulated into oblivion. The LLM companies just in the process of calibrating and tweaking the product so it kills more like cigarettes and less like interacting with a Terminator, and for that to happen, a few people have to die. They've almost certainly calculated out the potential litigation costs and accepted the risk.
And most of us can't avoid these products entirely because our job requires us to develop a basic proficiency in their use.