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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: 0.232s | source
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nis0s ◴[26 Aug 25 21:02 UTC] No.45032298[source]▶
Why did developers spread the idea of AI consciousness for LLMs in the first place? The usefulness and capability of an LLM is orthogonal to its capacity to develop consciousness.

I think people would use LLMs with more detachment if they didn’t believe there was something like a person in them, but they would still become reliant on them, regardless, like people did on calculators for math.

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1. lm28469 ◴[27 Aug 25 10:15 UTC] No.45037596[source]▶
> Why did developers

Most of people pushing this idea aren't developers. It's mostly being pumped by deluded execs like altman, zuck other people who have horses in the race.

They're closer to being robots than their LLMs are to being human, but they're so deep in their alternative realities they don't realise how disconnected they are from what humans are/do/want.

If you made it a sci-fi movie people wouldn't buy it because this scenario seems too retarded to be real, but that's what we get... some shitty slow burn black mirror type of thing