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Best of both worlds: Require human intervention when a user mentions suicide.

• pyuser583 9mo ago
  That doesn't really solve the problem - what are the human's parameters? Protect the company from lawsuits? Spit out a link to a suicide hotline? What does the human know - do they know all the slang terms and euphamisms for suicide. That's something most counselors don't know. And what about euthanasia? Even as a public policy - not in reference to the user. "Where is assisted suicide legal? Does the poor use assisted suicide more than the rich?" Smart apps like browser recommendations have dealt with this very inconsistently.
• cm2012 9mo ago
  If you force a bad user experience, people will find worse workarounds.
• DocTomoe 9mo ago
  Alright, as someone who is currently suffering from burnout (which is classified as a form of depression in my country, making me swear the holy oath to my doctor once a month that I do not think, believe, or plan to end it): This is probably the worst possible conclusion you could make. It will breed paranoia. "If I use the wrong words, will my laptop rat me out, and the police kick in my door to 'save me' and drag me into the psych ward against my will, ruining my life and making my problems just so much more difficult?" Instead of a depressed person using cheap, but more importantly: available resources to manage their mood, you will take them into a state of helplessness and fear of some computer in Florida deciding to cause an intervention at 2am. What do you think will happen next? Is such a person less or more likely to make a decision you'd rather not have them make?
• knollimar 9mo ago
  I don't think this is necessarily good. Is no intervention good when someone turns to chatgpt if they cannot afford professional help? I'd wager passive suidical ideation is helped by chatgpt than nothing at all