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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: 0.243s | source
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hattmall ◴[27 Aug 25 02:49 UTC] No.45034932[source]▶
Wow, this incredibly awful. I mean not even just the suicide, but like the whole idea of kids / people just having conversations with AI. I never ever considered it as like a social interaction thing. It's so weird to me, it's completely fake, but I guess it could seem normal especially to a teenager.

IDK the whole idea isn't one I considered and it's disturbing. Especially considering how much it does dumb stuff when I try to use it for work tasks.

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1. u5wbxrc3 ◴[28 Aug 25 13:41 UTC] No.45052062[source]▶
It's just bizarre to me. I have always been fully aware that when I give input to a LLM I am conversing with a statistical model. Never has it crossed my mind to actually talk to a LLM. But I guess it seems possible when you haven't grown up with technology or don't know how it works. This fate for that poor boy is awful and OpenAI should be responsible.