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No, you do not get it, the Onion is about guns Guns are pretty much irrelevant to the story, that's my point The focus of the story is an AI chatbot murdering

by chx 2y ago

No, you do not get it, the Onion is about guns Guns are pretty much irrelevant to the story, that's my point The focus of the story is an AI chatbot murdering a human Well, that's not the right words, we do not even have the right words for this because murder presumes intent and obviously there's no intent An automated plagiarism machine has spewed such bullshit which pushed a teen to suicide. Perhaps that's the right wording.

ben_w 2y ago
The fact that the UK demonstrably reduced suicide rates as a result of making it very marginally less easy to get a no-prescription-needed painkiller, makes me think that there's plenty of people on the edge. Easy access to firearms is totally in the same category as easy access to painkillers to overdose on, and has been demonstrated by similar research: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4566524/#:~:text=Firearms%20legislation%20is%20a%20politically,15%20in%20the%20United%20States https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4566524/#:~:text=Fi.... I have opined before that I would be surprised if ChatGPT specifically has caused the deaths of fewer than 200 people, just by giving bad advice — that's one in a million of the users, and I think that's plausible given the story of a different chatbot almost leading to botulism poisoning. I also think that the general internet should have an 18 rating: to the extent that the argument for film classifications is valid, and that the internet is too big to be classified and also definitely contains examples of things beyond the most extreme allowed in cinema etc., we should treat it like it's 18-only content except where demonstrably suitable for younger audiences.