The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame

Can’t wait to see the AI freaks on lemmy defend this, the chat logs are fucking awful and I legit recommend not reading them if you have mental health issues.

Proves over and over society was not ready for AI chatbots like this. I use it daily, but as someone who fully knows the limitations of what it is and what it can do. I'm mentally sound and can handle whatever garbage it can vomit up, but it helps with my coding. The fact that it was unleashed to everyone going full pandora's box was an insane pure profit driven motive.

Those of us who understand it can completely see it going off the rails. It's just a prediction machine. If you give it horrible stuff like that it's going to predict that it should come up with horrible stuff in response. It's almost impossible to stop it from doing that because the only real way to prevent it is to not train on that stuff before, but when you're dealing with the entire fucking internet that's pretty hard too. (Seriously people, Reddit and 4chan were included in training. How stupid were they with this?)

This was inevitable. Of course people are too trusting in AI and those mentally unwell will not be able to distinguish it. It was designed to be like that. They were wrong to release it openly to society.

I don't have any evidence. But everything I read about this story I get the vibe that parents are dodging their responsibility. Some of the logs clearly show that the kid have issues with the family.

And the fact that they are willing to blame some software instead of themselves speaks quite loudly.

Suicide in kids usually have two real roots, school or family. Because that's the two places the kid will spend more time with. And probably only run to "other places" if one or both those fundamental places are awful.

It's "videogames are to blame for violence" all over again.

I know too well how parents behave when they don't want to assume their own fucking responsibility for how they raise their kids, and this smells too much like that very same shit.

Great, now the machines have a taste for human blood.