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Obviously the kid had issues and the chatbot can't really be blamed for that. OTOH it's also obvious if someone cannot distinguish a chatbot from a real person
by pier25 2y ago
Obviously the kid had issues and the chatbot can't really be blamed for that.
OTOH it's also obvious if someone cannot distinguish a chatbot from a real person at an emotional level (not a rational one) they should not be allowed to use this.
- pryce 2y agoI think it's fair to conclude that most people stating that they feel like killing themselves "have issues". Yet: if there is some second person telling the above kid to go through with that, we don't see the kid "having issues" as exonerating the second person. It is not at all clear to me why we would suddenly see the kid "having issues" as exonerating in the second case, if we replace the human with an LLM.
- pier25 2y agoLet me preface my comment by saying I did attempt suicide many years ago and I did have issues. I wasn't being sarcastic. Suicide is not something a healthy person would attempt. That said, when I wrote my previous comment I hadn't read the whole article. I had missed the part where the chatbot encouraged him to "come home". I still don't think the chatbot is responsible. I do think it's negligence for the bots of a company to engage in these conversations about suicide and/or not sound an alarm. Plus I would question if minors should be allowed to use these service or even social media. But that's another rabbit hole.