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A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

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443 points jaredwiener | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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slg ◴[26 Aug 25 21:15 UTC] No.45032427[source]▶
It says a lot about HN that a story like this has so much resistance getting any real traction here.
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dkiebd ◴[26 Aug 25 21:58 UTC] No.45032863[source]▶
This sucks but the only solution is to make companies censor the models, which is a solution we all hate, so there’s that.
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slg ◴[26 Aug 25 22:12 UTC] No.45033001[source]▶
Thank you, “we just have to accept that these systems will occasionally kill children” is a perfect example of the type of mindset I was criticizing.
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SnuffBox ◴[26 Aug 25 23:25 UTC] No.45033587[source]▶
If we banned everything that contributed to the death of children we'd eventually have nothing left to ban.
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1. insane_dreamer ◴[27 Aug 25 06:02 UTC] No.45035921[source]▶
Contributing to and facilitating are 2 very different things. This was more the latter.