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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: 0.202s | 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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kouteiheika ◴[27 Aug 25 08:49 UTC] No.45037010[source]▶
So what's the alternative? Pervasive censorship and horrible privacy and freedom-of-speech destroying legislation like UK's Online Safety Act?

I'm not looking forward to the day when half of the Internet will require me to upload my ID to verify that I'm an adult, and the other half will be illegal/blocked because they refuse to do the verification. But yeah, think of the children!

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1. kunley ◴[27 Aug 25 16:13 UTC] No.45041619[source]▶
The alternative is as usual, getting certain individuals to the court and making them pay for the damage or even to go to jail, instead of preemptively trying to give them a holy cow status.