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Didn't some guy kill himself because his side chick AI chat bot told him too. Leaving behind a wife and kids?

• cardanome 3y ago
  Yeah: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-a... One could argue that he was suicidal regardless of talking to the bot and the bot "only" offered the encouragement that he wanted to hear but still horrible story. It highlights exactly why I find the use of LLM's for any form of emotional work to be deeply irresponsible. I am horrified to read that people use them as a therapist replacements. As long as we have not found a way to make them safe (and I am not even sure they can be made so in the first place) we need to keep them far away from vulnerable people.
  • thumbuddy 3y ago
    Just putting it out there. Might not want to entrust your life when you're in a vulnerable state relating to something only humans and some animals have to a chat bot.
  • creata 3y ago
    > I am horrified to read that people use them as a therapist replacements. I'm guessing that (thanks to wait times or simple anxiety) for a lot of those people, the alternative isn't therapy, but nothing (or worse, anonymous strangers on the Internet).